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We saw the interior of the house where Foggy lived in"The kink in Foggy's niblick" and the exterior in "Walking stiff can make you famous". Seymour always lived in the isolated house in the country.
With regard to the name "Dr. Kildare" applied to Syd this was a reference to the popular television series of the same name, not Syd's surname.
The one house we never saw was that of Blamire.

CFC here again, got a couple of answers on names or surnames of characters, I am certain Sid and Ivy's surname is Kildaire due to the series 6 episode "A Bicycle Made for Three", when in the new white cafe Compo says it's Dr Kildaire and sister Wally when Sid is carving the joint, I might be wrong but it's the nearest we've ever got to an answer.
Back to some more of the oddities, with edie and wesley in the shed remember that Wes only came when she shouted and didn't do here hyacinth impression (or is it hyacinth doing here edie impression cause edie was on screen first) and they always say that the yorkshire woman is a powerfull lass, maybe edie was in the voice?
Wanna throw in a couple more oddities into the equation - did Foggy live in a cardboard box becasue I don't think we ever saw his house and also where did seymour liv in his final 2 series?

Till next time...

Compo, Foggy and Clegg.

sorry big unc it should have read left to right and uppards(dashed clever these chinese)

I didn't realise they were that odd in Hull. I know it is Yorkshire but even so. Or did they go funny with decimalisation (or do I mean with being cast into darkest Humberside)?

onward and upward big unc(the fig roll king)we have to be glad its not in entwhistle's mothers tongue. right to left and uppards!

Being inherently paranoiac, (which of course does not mean that they are not out to get me) I was wondering if it was me. I wondered if I was being punished for ignoring C, F & C's request to lay off the fig rolls. But everybody else seems to be suffering, including all the other threads/message boards. Then I was, of course, trying to decide between the cock-up and the conspiracy theory of politics. I always incline to the former.

I suppose this way round has the very marginal benefit of always finding the latest post on Page #1. I have always preferred Page#3. But is does make for difficulty with latest post at the top and new comments box at the bottom.

Do they mean to keep us in a mirror universe. Time will tell but it would have been nice to have been forewarned. I mean, generally Compo got a wee bit of notice before he was inverted.

I'M READING BACKWARDS FOR CHRISTMAS!! to paraphrase my other hero

No doubt it is part of some EU inspired directive. Keep the elderly mentally active by confusing the issue in the most inept manner or some such nonsense. Either that or Mark and Jen fancy having a laugh at our expense.

Help! Help! Help!

What are they doing to us?
The whole thread has been reversed! The latest posts have gone to Page #1 and the very first are on Page #26.
It's biblical!

The First shall be Last and the Last shall be First!

I am intrigued as to where this will end up if it ever gets posted

Ah but Paddington, despite his Peruvian ancestry, has Yorkshire connections! Living in Doncaster at the time Jeremy Clarkson's mother was much taken by the Paddington stories and made little figures of him for Jeremy and his sister. In order to make the figures stand up she put him in Wellington boots. This was the start of the Paddington we know today. The figures became so popular that she founded a business, Gabrielle Designs to make them, a company that lasted from 1968 until 1998. When he first left school Jeremy acted as a travelling salesman for the company selling Paddingtons.

More tongue in cheek! To quote Gilbert and Sullivan, "Oh Joy. Oh Rapture". ASDA fig rolls are back in Scotland. The famine is well and truly over.

Sid and Ivy I concur on. However, Alvin is Alvin Smedley. I concur on Marina but thought everyone knew that the immigrant from the far east, Hull, is Electrical Entwistle. I don't think I realised until I did wee bit research on this that Barry and Brenda are Wilkinsons and that Miss Davenport is a Lucinda. Another without surname is Nelly and, of course, we only recently learnt names of policemen, Cooper and Walsh.

In light of recent discussion on content of our great thread I cannot resist, tongue in cheek, mentioning that today is Paddington Bear's 50th birthday. Clegg would surely queation how any self-respecting Peruvian could survive so long in the dark south and in London in particular. After all, he considers London second most dangerous place after Lancashire.

Some more oddities for the collection. To the best of my knowledge Syd and Ivy have never been identified with a surname, and neither have Marina and, more recently, Alvin. Howard and Pearl's surname is Sibshaw, although for the life of me I can't recall in which episode this occured but I am sure BigUnc can enlighten me.Again, I think I am correct in saying that Entwhistle has never been identified with a first name?

Cleggy was, and is, one of life's great commentators. His wit can be quite acerbic for one so mild mannered. I would love to read his memoirs if they ever got published.

you mention my hero big unc, i think some of cleggy's one liners are brill. some of them are pertinent even today, particularly his thoughts on education.as for spotting the slips we might as well spot where the stand -ins come in , cos sometimes its not difficult.to do that though would destroy the fun of the programme.the reason i am not as upto date as you all is because i (and herself)made the decision not to buy the series on dvd because ' they are always showing them on tv'.just thought i'd put that in as cleggy would say.

I forgot to mention Slipslidding and 400 miles from Dunstable, a consummmation devoutly to be wished. That either puts him somewhere over water or on the right side of the border like me and the mini-skirted haggis!

Like June Whitfield as Delphi Potts in 'Potts in Pole Position', 2001 Christmas Special, then getting re-incarnated as the regular, Nelly, in 'Merry Entwistle and Jackson Day' 2005 Christmas Special continuing on in 2006 Series#27, et seq. A bit of Latin there for which I refuse to apologise. After all, our favourite programme was full of non sequiturs. My favourite, Clegg rejoiced in them and many other idiocies. As the introducer of 'The great Fig Roll Famine, I am totally unrepentant. I will continue to throw them in and will not be concerned or twitched when, like most of Billy Harcastle's greatest lines, they go totally ignored.

That was what I thought our great programme was all about, a celebration to the banal. So there.

Wecome back, CF and C, for a while we thought we had lost you. Glad you are still with us.
With reference to your comments about the forum one big problem is that our favorite program is being cut back even further with the creation of this new channel. It was available on both Drama and Gold, but now is reduced only to Gold. All the more reason to keep this thread alive to bring our views to the outside world, but I take your point that the bulk must be concerned with LOSW.With regard to the exraneous material, BigUnc has now informed us that the Great Fig Roll Famine is now over, (although I, personally, am scouring the supermarkets trying to find this new breakfast cereal everyone is talking about, Kredit Krunch)
What might be interesting would be to compile a listing of some of the LOSW oddities over the years. We have mentioned Nora's sister and Compo's wartime service. How about the odd location of Weley's shed? This is shown at the top of the lane, about 200 yards from their house and yet Edie could stand at the kitchen door and, without shouting, summon Wesley who would appear within seconds, not even breathing heavily although he must have sprinted like a scalded cat to make it in that time.

PS it would not be such a big thread without the chit chat !!

to compo,foggy and clegg, regarding the chit chat about fig rolls and latin -i like to think of it as talk between friends. you dont meet someone while out and just have the one topic do you?no, you go from one thing to another and say what comes to mind at the time.while i am not into different series etc i like to keep up with how every one is and welcome reading the messages.

I was visiting Dunstable a couple of months ago and picked up a flyer for a day trip to see the show. The cost was very reasonable - about £16 or thereabouts which included travel there and back. Unfortunately I live about 400 miles away so was unable to take advantage of the offer.

Hi there Compo, Foggy and Clegg back on the scene, I did know about the new home of our forum but have not had the free time to post, but looking at recent posts before and after the change, I just want to mention a couple of things - Compo's first name is William, it has been mentioned in a couple of episodes, the ones that spring to my mind is the series 2 episode where the neighbour is moving to oz and Compo says he carved W.S (Willy Simonite) into the wood where they meet the lollipop man and also in the episode "The Last Surviving Maurice Chevaliuer Impression" in series 12 in old money (hopefully series 13 on dvd) where Gordon Kaye's character announces Compo as Mr William Simmonite, can't think of any other episodes of the top of my head but don't need to mention it every episode, Foggy's first name I think is Walter but in the Golf episode in series 3 Clegg says Oliver because one box has C.O.D for Coporal Dewhurst but I think has mention his name in another couple of episodes but all internet references to Foggy say Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst.

Have had no luck trying to find any info from universal or anyone else about series 13 & 14 DVD but am still trying and if here anything will post on here straight away.

Now have been doing some research into the shows where the BBC record the laughter for the show and this year they are in November at Teddington Studios, that is all I know but I am sure if you ring the studio they will help you (for those of you who don't know Teddington is in London), I know this info because a friend of a friend is going down to one of the shows but they can't remember how they went about getting the tickets because they enquired about 6 months ago.

Finally before I finish I just would like to make one request about this forum now it has been re-branded, can we just keep the comments about our favourite TV show and not all this Latin or fig roll rubbish, all I want from this forum is info, rumours etc. about Last of the Summer Wine.

Till next time...

Compo, Foggy and Clegg.

So, oh newcomer on the block, young Michael-UKTV, can you let us in on when we might see some fresh episodes, Series#20 onwards, of the programme you like so much?

Just a hurried thought before departing to see Edinburgh v Leinster in the Heineken Cup.

Must admit I didn't think much to Cannon and Ball, maybe it's me but they didn't seem to fit in somehow.

Still no word from Cleggscap, Compo Clegg and Foggy or Madame Pudden. Hope they haven't been permanently lost. You will have to send the ghillies out to beat the highlands, BigUnc, to try to flush out the tartan miniskirted haggis.

On the subject of oddities, in early episodes we are given the distinct impression on several occasions that Compo's wartime service was spent around Aldershot, and yet in the Milenium show he was involved in the retreat from Dunkirk.

Got out of step there. I was answering last post on Page#25 not realising everyone else had moved on to #26. Have updated my 'Favourite Places' Shortcut.

Grumpy bro was quite right when he said it was Clegg called Foggy 'Oliver'.

Mark's reference to Nora's sister reminded me of a query I had over very last episode, 'Get Out That, Then'. I read somewhere that Florrie (Barbara Young) was Nora's sister. But there was no mention of that in the episode. Only relationship specified was Lenny (Bobby Ball) as Barry's cousin. Mind, you got distinct impression that Lenny and Cliff (Tommy Cannon) were brothers.