Frank Woodhouse was a coin and medal dealer based on Water Street who called at 1 Coronation Street to see Albert Tatlock with a view to purchasing his Military Medal, awarded in the First World War. Albert wanted to sell the medal to raise the funds to go to London to lay a cenotaph on Remembrance Day in memory of his old friend Monty Shawcross who had died a few days before. Frank told Albert that the medals were very common and in the past his father had had a drawer full of them that he had purchased for £1 out of pity from old soldiers who had fallen on hard times. He only offered £19 and increased the sum to £21 when pushed. Albert accepted the money to pay for a wreath which he laid on the Manchester cenotaph. Over the next week or so, Ken Barlow saw how unhappy Albert was at having