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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.
William John Owen Rowbotham (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999) was an English actor and songwriter. He is best known for portraying Compo Simmonite in the Yorkshire-based BBC comedy series Last of the Summer Wine for over a quarter of a century. He died on 12 July 1999, his last appearance on-screen being shown in April 2000.
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.
Graveship (Old English: grafansċip) was a subdivision of a medieval estate each was under a grave that was selected every year. An example is the manor of Wakefield, which was managed with 12 graveships. The OED defines a graveship as: "In the West Riding of Yorkshire: a district, in some instances a subdivision of a large parish, in others ...
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Hepworth was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Kirkburton, [4] from 1866 Hepworth was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1938 the parish was abolished and merged with Holmfirth, part also went to form Dunford.
Compo may refer to: Compo Simmonite, a character from the British TV series Last of the Summer Wine, played by Bill Owen; Demoscene compo, a competition involving multimedia "demo" programs; Short for composition ornament, a mouldable resin worked either by hand or more usually pressed into moulds to produce decorative work
Transmission allows users to quickly download files from multiple peers on the Internet and to upload their own files. [7] By adding torrent files via the user interface, users can create a queue of files to be downloaded and uploaded. Within the file selection menus, users can customise their downloads at the level of individual files.