Len Sheldon was a customer of the Rovers who asked Michelle Connor to organise a birthday party for him one night in November 2014. As a Country and Western fan, he wanted it to be on the theme of a hoedown and cowboy hats and inflatable cactus plants were duly supplied while Michelle tried to find some bales of hay for the guests to sit on. Len was a cameo role for the acclaimed theatre actor Ronald Pickup.