Open All Hours shop auctioned off

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Bidders can get their hands on one of television's most famous shops when the store from the comedy classic Open All Hours is sold at auction.

The corner shop on Lister Avenue in Balby, Doncaster, was used to film Ronnie Barker's popular BBC sitcom.

The shop was, and still is, a hairdressing salon which was converted for filming.

Open All Hours ran from 1976 to 1985 and featured Barker as tight-fisted grocery shop owner Albert Arkwright.

His long-suffering nephew Granville was played by David Jason.

The shop is now used as a hairdressing salon

The shop, now called Beautique, is part of a lot which incorporates a ground-floor studio, a first-floor one bedroom apartment and a yard with an outside toilet.

It was saved from demolition two years ago after a campaign group fought off proposals to bulldoze the shop as part of regeneration plans for the area.

Sequence Group estate agents are responsible for selling the property and area director John Cox said despite the property downturn he believed interest in the shop would be high.

The shop will go under the hammer at the Royal Armouries in Leeds on 24 November.