Last of the Summer Wine [SEP] narrative location
longest-running comedy programme in Britain and the longest-running sitcom in the world.
"Last of the Summer Wine" was set and filmed in and around Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England, and centred on a trio of old men and their youthful misadventures; the membership of the trio changed several times over the years. The original trio consisted of Bill Owen as the mischievous and impulsive Compo Simmonite, Peter Sallis as easy-going everyman Norman Clegg, and Michael Bates as uptight and arrogant Cyril Blamire. When
narrative. After several departures and comebacks, Barraclough finally left "Coronation Street" at the end of 1998.
Barraclough was later to appear in a sitcom, "Mother's Ruin" (1994), in which he played a bachelor dominated by his belligerent mother (Dora Bryan). He made a guest appearance in "Last of the Summer Wine" ("Has Anyone Seen A Peruvian Wart? 2005), playing opposite both Bryan and his friend Kathy Staff and appeared in a variety of TV shows including "