Granville (Open All Hours) his uncle who is a practical man (and a miser), Granville is a carefree man, yet is treated as if he is still a child. Its never officially revealed how old Granville actually is in the original series, but in series 2, Arkwright does mention a Duke visiting the area in 1949, 9 months before Granville was born, making him around 33 in the 1981 series. By the time of "Still Open All Hours", Arkwright has long died and Granville has inherited the shop as promised by Arkwright, and has a young son, Leroy. Despite their radically different personalities and
Harley Granville-Barker on handmade paper in a slipcase. Granville-Barker's most notable prose work is the "Prefaces to Shakespeare" written from 1927 to the end of his life in 1946. "Prefaces to Shakespeare" was considered the first major Shakespeare study to attend to the practical matters of staging. The prefaces were published in two hardback volumes in 1946 and 1947. In 1906, Granville-Barker met his first wife Lillah McCarthy while playing her opposite in "Man and Superman". After World War I, he divorced his first wife and married an American writer named Helen Huntington who disliked the stage, actors, and especially Shaw. He