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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.
Buried in more than 270,000 beads, grave reveals women’s power 5,000 years ago. Katie Hunt, CNN. January 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.
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.
Archaeologists have unearthed a strange 2,500-year-old burial of an Iron Age woman in Sweden with a small knife stuck to her grave.. The latest dig at the ancient cemetery site in Pryssgården in ...
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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.
One of these 5,000-year-old burials was identified as a “chariot grave,” archaeologists said and a photo shows. ... Hailee Steinfeld is using 'society's fixation on women's breasts' for a good ...