For most fans of pop memorabilia the ultimate goal is a top star’s signature to add to their burgeoning autograph collection.

But whenever Dorothy ‘Dot’ Claxton met a celebrity she went one step further, and then some.

The retired art teacher from Birmingham persuaded each of them to draw a dove - the age-old symbol of peace - before signing it.

The drawings she accumulated include ones by David Bowie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Murray, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and even one of a dove in a space helmet by the astronaut Sir Tim Peake.

Her collection was amassed through a mixture of charm and dogged determination, with Mrs Claxton waiting patiently outside stage doors for the chance to ask the stars to put pen to paper and, when that didn’t work, writing to their agents begging them to pass on the request to their clients.