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William Simmonite, better known by his nickname of Compo (from unemployment compensation, as in the phrase "he's on the compo", according to series writer Roy Clarke), [1] was a character in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.
The Projects volunteers have proactively taken photographs of over 1.5 million graves and memorial inscriptions in the Commissions care and continue to provide thousands of these photographs to members of the public each year, many of them next of kin unable to travel to visit the grave or memorial in person. Images have been provided to the ...
Bamforth & Co Ltd was started in 1870 by James Bamforth, a portrait photographer in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.In 1883 he began to specialise in making lantern slides. [1] In 1898 the company started making silent monochrome films with the Riley Brothers of Bradford, West Yorkshire, who had been making films since 1896.
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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.
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
Researchers excavated five unmarked graves at the cemetery in 1999 in an effort to find Samuel Washington’s resting place. They recovered small bones and teeth from three burials, but DNA ...
Pages in category "Holmfirth" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...