BBC's Last Of The Summer Wine

I am a big fan of Roy Clarke's Last Of The Summer Wine, this blog will feature news, links and YouTube clips of this lovable TV series and its unforgettable characters, Compo Simmonite, Norman Clegg, Foggy Dewhurst, Cyril Blamire, Seymour Utterthwaite, Herbert (Truly) Truelove, Norah & Wally Batty, Sid & Ivy, Howard, Pearl & Marina, Edie & Wesley Pegden, Glenda & Barry and many more. Any comments or news will be greatly appreciated at sidscafe@gmail.com

Getting Sam Home

John Staff (Husband of Kathy Staff) out-takes, Kathy's acting ambition and Nora Batty

The Changing Face of Holmfirth - Last of the Summer Wine Town (3 min clip)

Last of the Summer Wine Town - Artists in Residence (final sequence)

inside The Last Of The Summer Wine exhibition

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Summer Wine Links & more

  • The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
  • Huddersfield Daily Examiner
  • British Seaside Morecambe seafront
  • Juliette Kaplan's (Pearl), Official Web-site
  • Sid's Cafe Holmfirth
  • Holmirth Tourist Site
  • Huddersfield webcams
  • UKTV's Summer Wine, Message Board
  • BBC's Summer Wine comedy guide
  • Last Of The Summer Wine Fan Fiction
  • Wikipedia's Last of the Summer Wine

Audio & Video Clips

  • Norah Batty's Stockings
  • Interviews with Cast
  • The dales From The Air

Other favourite links

  • St.Venant et Sentier Poetique
  • Richard Seguin
  • BMW MOA



Summer Wine News Old & New

  • Outrage as Dame Thora Hird is refused a blue plaque despite being one of Britain's favourite actresses
  • Celebrating Kathy Staff
  • Tributes paid to Are You Being Served? star Trevor Bannister
  • Norah Batty's house for sale in Last of the Summer Wine village
  • Hunstanton: Summer Wine folk raise cash for legion
  • Obituary: Trevor Bannister
  • Plans for statue of Last of the Summer Wine’s Compo scrapped as Kirklees Council cuts funding
  • Tameside honours Last of the Summer Wine actors
  • Roy Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Not now, Cato! OBE for Pink Panther star Kwouk
  • Jean Alexander was 'devastated' over the Last of the Summer Wine's axe
  • Obituary: Sir Norman Wisdom
  • Jean Fergusson signed to Corrie
  • Jean promises to add a splash of Summer Wine to Floral Pavilion panto role
  • TV: The Very Last of the Summer Wine
  • Last of the Summer Wine finale attracts 5.4m viewers
  • Oh, what WILL I do without those grumpy old men? (And their broom wielding battleaxes)
  • Last of The Summer Wine creator Roy Clarke reminisces on his time working on the show
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Our very special friends in the north
  • Summer Wine star reveals Royal taste for the absurd
  • Celebrating Last of the Summer Wine's record run
  • Last of the Summer Wine: The show's final words
  • Ending without a send-off isn't funny says Summer Wine star
  • Countryfile Screens Special On Holmfirth
  • Last of the Summer Wine Creator Roy Clarke says he knew this season would be the last
  • Huddersfield Daily Examiner
  • Son of Compo: Dad never put his arms around me, says Tom Owen, himself a veteran star of Last Of The Summer Wine
  • Summer Wine star criticises BBC
  • Ken's toast to Last of the Summer Wine
  • Last of the Summer Wine: the ageless appeal of three old men in a bath
  • Last Of The Summer Wine in pictures
  • A toast to the LAST of the Summer Wine
  • In pictures: Last Of The Summer Wine
  • Last of the Summer Wine director claims show to be axed by BBC
  • Fans fear they've seen last of Summer Wine
  • The future’s foggy for Last of the Summer Wine
  • Last Of The Summer Wine to end
  • Last of the Summer Wine star's son withdraws support for Kirklees’ statue plan
  • Pearl's property gems: From Marylebone to Kent, the Last Of The Summer Wine star's growing empire
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Meet Compo's stunt double
  • Our House: Neil and Rebecca Worthington turn Nora Batty’s house into holiday home
  • Business is booming at Last of the Summer Wine Nora’s old house
  • Kirklees says statue of Last of the Summer Wine’s Compo will boost Holmfirth
  • Statue tribute to Summer Wine's Compo will be in place next year
  • Compo and Foggy star in comic strip; American fan draws Summer Wine
  • Nora Batty 'alive and bossing men 1000 years ago', study finds
  • Last of the Summer Wine' pub for sale
  • Last Of The Summer Wine clothes to be sold on ebay
  • Theatre: Roy Clarke praised as Summer Wine hits stage
  • TV Ken soaks up last of the summer time
  • Tourists going batty
  • BBC should ignore its psychotic critics
  • I'd be batty to play Nora
  • Ruth Madoc in Last of the Summer Wine
  • REVIEW: Last of the Summer Wine at Worthing's Connaught Theatre
  • Last of the Summer Wine - The Moonbather
  • Review: Last of the Summer Wine at The Devonshire Park Theatre
  • Are You Threeing Served
  • Last of the Summer Wine town fears Tesco will ruin its charm
  • Last Of The Summer Wine recommissioned for BBC One
  • BBC1's Last of the Summer Wine to return for six episodes
  • Last of the Summer Wine country, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire: Walk ID 1936
  • Last of Summer Wine in Lancaster
  • A Gala Charity Show celebrating the Career of Dora Bryan OBE
  • The morning I woke up with arthritis, by Pearl of the Summer Wine
  • TV classic Last of the Summer Wine among BBC targets for comedy culling
  • The BBC doesn't like old people: Now June Whitfield, 83, slams 'ageist Auntie'
  • Compo statue for the Summer Wine town
  • BBC to make painful cuts
  • An Appeal from Peter Sallis
  • Peter Sallis Interview
  • Peter Sallis In Touch Interview
  • TV tourist attractions
  • Peter Sallis at Lyme Regis
  • Vintage fare, the last of the Summer Wine?
  • Kathy Staff's Funeral Photos
  • Last of Summer Wine boss quits in axe row
  • BBC denies plan to axe Summer Wine
  • Funeral held for sitcom actress
  • BBC hits back in Last Of The Summer Wine row
  • Summer Wine star Staff dies at 80
  • Soap star Jean to turn on lights
  • Going Batty about Nora
  • Survey says Summer Wine worst thing about Yorkshire
  • Cracking Good Stuff
  • £1m fortune left by Last of the Summer Wine's Foggy
  • Comedy legend Dora Bryan was saved from the brink of despair by an uplifting 70-year romance
  • Survey says Summer Wine worst thing about Yorkshire
  • Norman Clegg's in Town
  • Last of the Summer Wine antics 'dangerous' for elderly actors
  • Compo's New Town Centre Home
  • Summer Wine star Brian Wilde dies
  • Brian Wilde, The Gaurdian Obituary
  • Pull Your Stockings Up And Save
  • Huddersfield Daily Examiner
  • Bad TV REDEEMED : Last Of The Summer Wine
  • Don't give Peter Sallis any Wensleydale, please Grommit
  • Theme tune writer Hazlehurst dies





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