Open All Hours its owner, Len Riddiford. This shop is referenced in numerous "Open All Hours" episodes by Arkwright. Ronnie Barker proposed that Arkwright should have a stammer, and this was written into the character. Barker also co-created the premise of the dangerous till. In the series, the shop's antiquated till has a drawer that tends to snap shut suddenly. Even though this terrifies Granville and Arkwright, Arkwright leaves it to avoid the cost of buying a replacement, and because he believes it discourages burglars. The exterior shots were recorded on Lister Avenue in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster; the shop itself was
Harley Granville-Barker well with the Edwardian audience. They found his plays to be incomprehensible. According to "The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance", his style was more similar to the styles of Chekhov by putting the "action under the surface". Although his audience may not have understood him, this did not stop Granville-Barker from discussing important issues in society. In 1907 Granville-Barker's play "Waste" was banned due to the topic of abortion and its politics. In 1909, three volumes of his plays, "The Voysey Inheritance", "Waste", and "The Marrying of Ann Leete", were published in a limited edition of 50 copies printed