"Last of the Summer Wine" Pilgrimage

Bobsblips has chosen "Flower/Plant/Tree" for today's Wide-on-Wednesday challenge. My main blip is a panorama shot taken at Nora Batty's House this afternoon in the town of Holmfirth, including flowers and plants outside her door.

In case anyone has somehow never heard of this, "Last of the Summer Wine" was a BBC sitcom which ran from 1973 to 2010, totalling 31series and 295 episodes featuring the amusing escapades of a group of ageing men and women in a Yorkshire town.

Today on our way home from our week of travelling we stopped at Holmfirth where the series was filmed. Needless to say the town sensibly exploits its connection to the series, although in a typically British "low key" way. As you can see, Nora Batty's house (she of the sexy wrinkled stockings!) is now available to rent as self-catering holiday accommodation - and Compo's house next door is a museum (sadly we arrived as it was closing for the day - we'll have to make another trip sometime!).

The first extra is a collage showing on the top row Sid's cafe (closed on Wednesdays - bother!) outside and inside (taken through the window - they seem to have remodelled it a bit) and on the bottom row another shot of the terrace where Nora & Compo lived along with a sneak shot of the row where Norman Clegg lived next door to Howard and his "lovely" wife Pearl (we had to track down Clegg and Howard's houses as they're actually in Jackson Bridge, a couple of miles from Holmfirth on a private road so this is a quick sneaky shot!).

The actors who played Compo (Bill Owen) and Clegg (Peter Sallis) are buried in a churchyard in Holmfirth, so we visited there and the 2nd extra is a collage of their graves.

We always loved the series and over many months recently re-watched the whole lot bit by bit on UKTVPlay so it wsa wonderful to see the locations for ourselves.