Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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. [12]
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.
Graveship (Old English: grafansċip) was a subdivision of a medieval estate each was under a grave who 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 ...
Franz Grave (1932-2022), German Roman Catholic bishop; Ivan Grave (1874–1960), Soviet general and scientist; Jean Grave (1854–1939), French anarchist writer; Jørgen Grave (1909–1988), Norwegian politician; Manuel Grave (born 1989), Portuguese equestrian rider; Robert Grave (d. 1600), Anglican priest; W.W. Grave (1901–1999), English ...
Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispiece depicting Milton surrounded by four muses, designed by William Marshall. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas.