hen I first started work on, and going to all the shows associated with it, the late Tony East, ARE boss and larger-than-life character who died in 2022, was always there. Partner Pat and he would invariably be sat at the first table as we’d go into the bar at the (now demolished) Tillington Hotel, Stafford, of an evening, where we’d all be staying, while at the show itself, they’d be just inside the door, on the left, facing
