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Compo Simmonite, the Glossary

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), was a character in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.^[1]

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Last of the Summer Wine
Television characters introduced in 1973

Ale

Ale is a type of beer, brewed using a warm fermentation method.

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Bill Owen (actor)

William John Owen Rowbotham, (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999) was an English actor and songwriter.

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Brian Wilde

Brian George Wilde (13 June 1927 – 20 March 2008) was an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, most notably Mr Barrowclough in Porridge and Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine.

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Cigarette

A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking.

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Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975.

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First of the Summer Wine

First of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that aired on BBC1. Compo Simmonite and First of the Summer Wine are Last of the Summer Wine.

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Frank Thornton

Frank Thornton Ball (15 January 192116 March 2013), professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor.

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Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances.

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Gordon Wharmby

Gordon Wharmby (6 November 1933 – 18 May 2002) was an English television actor.

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Guinea pig

The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the genus Cavia in the family Caviidae.

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Holmfirth

Holmfirth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

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Jane Freeman (actress)

Shirley Ann Pithers (12 June 1935 – 9 March 2017), better known as Jane Freeman, was an English-born Welsh actress who was best known for her work on British television, mostly notably for her role as Ivy in Last of the Summer Wine.

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Jean Fergusson

Jean Fergusson (30 December 1944 – 14 November 2019) was a British television and theatre actress, who was best known for playing the part of Marina on the British situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine from 1985 until it was cancelled in 2010, and her several guest roles in the soap Coronation Street.

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Joe Gladwin

Joseph Gladwin (22 January 1906 – 11 March 1987) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Fred Jackson in Coronation Street, Stan Hardman in Nearest and Dearest, and Wally Batty in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine (1975–1987).

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John Comer

John Comer (1 March 1924 – 11 February 1984) was a British comic actor.

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Juliette Kaplan

Marlene Juliette Kaplan (2 October 1939 – 10 October 2019) was a British actress who was most famous for playing the role of Pearl Sibshaw in the BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine, from 1985 to 2010.

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Kathy Staff

Kathy Staff (born Minnie Higginbottom; 12 July 1928 – 13 December 2008) was an English actress known for her work on British television.

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Last of the Summer Wine

Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom set in Yorkshire created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010.

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Liz Fraser

Elizabeth Joan Winch (14 August 1930 – 6 September 2018), known professionally as Liz Fraser, was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles.

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Liz Smith (actress)

Betty Smith (11 December 1921 – 24 December 2016), known by the stage name Liz Smith, was a British character actress, known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared (1975–1979), the sisters Bette and Belle in 2point4 Children (1991–1999), Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994–1996) and Norma ("Nana") in The Royle Family (1998–2006).

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Michael Aldridge

Michael William ffolliott Aldridge (9 September 1920 – 10 January 1994) was an English actor.

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Michael Bates (actor)

Michael Hammond Bates (4 December 1920 – 11 January 1978) was a British actor born in India.

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Mike Grady (actor)

Michael Grady (born 6 February 1946) is an English character actor.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nora Batty

Nora Batty (née Renshaw) is a fictional character in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine. Compo Simmonite and Nora Batty are Last of the Summer Wine and television characters introduced in 1973.

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Norman Clegg

Norman Clegg, often nicknamed Cleggy, is a fictional character from the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine. Compo Simmonite and Norman Clegg are Last of the Summer Wine and television characters introduced in 1973.

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Nosebleed

A nosebleed, also known as epistaxis, is an instance of bleeding from the nose.

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Of Funerals and Fish

"Of Funerals and Fish" is the pilot episode of the world's longest-running television sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010), written by Roy Clarke. Compo Simmonite and of Funerals and Fish are Last of the Summer Wine.

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Peter Sallis

Peter John Sallis (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, known for his work on British television.

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Polish people

Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.

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Rag-and-bone man

A rag-and-bone man or ragpicker (UK English) or ragman, old-clothesman, junkman, or junk dealer (US English), also called a bone-grubber, bone-picker, chiffonnier, rag-gatherer, rag-picker, bag board, or totter, collects unwanted household items and sells them to merchants.

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Robert Fyfe

Robert Douglas Fyfe (25 September 1930 – 15 September 2021) was a Scottish actor, best known for his role as Howard in the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1985 to 2010.

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Roy Clarke

Royston Clarke (born 28 January 1930) is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.

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Sarah Thomas (actress)

Sarah Jane Thomas (born 5 June 1952) is a British actress, born in London, best known for her television appearances as Enid Simmons in Worzel Gummidge (1980), and as Glenda Wilkinson in Last of the Summer Wine (1986–2010).

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compo_Simmonite

Compo Simmonite, the Glossary

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See also

Last of the Summer Wine

Television characters introduced in 1973

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