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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
The HD postcode area, also known as the Huddersfield postcode area, [2] is a group of nine postcode districts in England, within three post towns. These cover southern West Yorkshire , including Huddersfield and Holmfirth in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees , and Brighouse in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale .
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A demoparty is an event where demosceners [16] and other computer enthusiasts gather to take part in competitions, nicknamed compos, [17] where they present demos (short audio-visual presentations of computer art) and other works such as digital art and music. A typical demoparty is a non-stop event spanning a weekend, providing the visitors a ...