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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.
In spite of this, Compo and Blamire were close, as shown by Compo's misery in the episodes immediately after he left. [3] Despite his snobby nature, Blamire had more common sense than most of his successors. Bates left the cast in 1975 due to cancer and concentrated on his role in It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Blamire was written out of the series; it ...
Upperthong Junior and Infant School, of 198 children aged 4 to 11, in 2006 received an above average overall score in the key stage 1 and 2 league tables. The school received an overall rating of Grade 2 (Good), for all areas and overall effectiveness in its latest full Ofsted report of 2012, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and achieved 'Good' again in 2017.
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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 ...
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Hade Edge is a small village to the south of Holmfirth and south-west of Hepworth in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the parish of Holme Valley and the metropolitan borough of Kirklees . Although it started as a fairly small hamlet it has grown considerably throughout the 1980s and 1990s with new housing.