Alf Roberts

You could meet Alf Roberts riding ona horse in the middle of the Sahara Desert and still know he was a grocer. Audrey Roberts

Alf Roberts was one of a line of semi-comic figures to have been proprieter of the Coronation Steret corner shop. Alf was introduced as a colleague of Frank Barlow and rose from a member of the sorting office staff at the GPO to taking the office of Mayor of Weatherfield.