Cliff Stone was a petty crook who saw an opportunity of robbing Ernest Bishop's photographic studio once he realised that the only occupant at night was the old lady in the flat above - Ena Sharples. He entered the studio at night and was disturbed by Ena. He then tailed her for a short time, but the sharp-eyed Ena quickly saw him watching her from the bar of the Rovers and made enquiries from some of the regular as to who he was. A few hours later that night, Elsie Tanner suddenly remembered him but by that time Stone was lifting the floorboards in the dark room of the studio. A fearless Ena confronted the nervous man and he told her that the £74 he was carrying were his savings that he’d deposited there some time before when he worked on the premises when it was a junk shop. She confisca