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ATTERCLIFFE  SHOP  (Sheffield)  1961
(Service Department at Fir Vale, Sheffield)

Shop Manager - Randolph Bamford

Opened by Elsie Tanner & Son Dennis of Coronation Street
(Pat Phoenix & Philip Lowrie)

Picture 01  3 commissionaires, 2 salesmen,
The taller of the two salesmen is Harry Haigh, name of the other one, forgotten.

Picture 02  Crowds blocking Atterclffe Road

Picture 03   Jack Ashworth helping a youth who had fainted.

Picture 04
McMichael rep (name forgotten) and salesman supporting Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) at the shop front.

Picture 05   Official opening, cutting the tape.  Elsie and Dennis

Picture 06     Note the window across the road.
(doubt that Health & Safety at Work Act would allow this today !)

Picture 07
McMichael rep presenting portable McMichael radios to Elsie and Dennis
(Manager Randy Bamford looking on)

Picture 08   Lucky McMichael  rep!

Picture 09     Elsie trying to sell a McMichael radio to Dennis.

Picture 10   Autograph time, showing a cashier and shop cleaner (names forgotten)

Picture 11   Autograph time, Co Secretary Mr Batson alongside Elsie.

Picture 12   Flower presentation by ? (name forgotten)

Picture 13   On the shop roof waving to the crowds

Footnote:
The crowds that gathered blocked the road to Sheffiled and to Rotherham,
Coronation Street fans without doubt and an experience not to be forgotten.
A Wombwell Shop was opened by Johnny Steele (ex Manager of Barnsley Football Club)
 

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