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Compo was born in 1919 into a poor, lower-class family in Holmfirth. He claims that his mother, a rag-and-bone woman , said that immediately after he was born the sun began to shine and that a swallow began to sing.
Born at Acton Green, London to a working-class family (his father a staunchly left-wing tram driver), [1] [2] Owen made his first film appearance in 1945, but did not achieve lasting fame until 1973, when he took the co-starring role of William "Compo" Simmonite in the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
Upperthong is a village approximately 807 feet (246 m) above sea level, [2] in the civil parish of Holme Valley, in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, near the town of Holmfirth, approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Huddersfield.
Joe Gladwin; 1975–1987) Nora's perennially shell-shocked husband and Compo's next-door neighbour, Wally Batty was a short and quiet man, kept on a short leash by his wife. His relationship with Nora stood in stark contrast to Compo's unrequited lust after her; in fact, he often welcomed the prospect of Compo running off with her.
Pages in category "Holmfirth" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The family made the decision public after images of Lawrence's grave taken after the funeral home exhumed his body began circulating on social media. Lawrence was 18 when he was killed in 1993 ...
Gilbert and Clarke then travelled to Holmfirth and decided to use it as the setting for the pilot episode. [6] [18] [19] [20] Though the exterior shots were always filmed on location in Holmfirth and the surrounding countryside, the interior shots were, until the early 1990s, filmed in front of a live studio audience at BBC Television Centre in ...
The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), [1] or the Way of St. James in English, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.