“One of the first comments on this page from Margaret in 2014 recalls queuing all night for concert tickets in the early 70's which I did on a number of occasions (even for the same ELP concert as her!). On one memorable Saturday evening we arrived at about 10pm (the Box Office opened the following morning at 10am). It was a freezing night and sleeping on the pavement, which was difficult at the best of times, was all but impossible. Completely unexpectedly the owner (possibly Mr Ancill as above?) turned up at 4am on Sunday morning to open the shop and sell tickets to the shivering punters, quite possibly closing up again when the queue had disappeared until the normal opening time some hours later. What a hero! Funny how little acts of kindness like that remain with you some 50 years later...”
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