Names or surnames

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amos hames

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We know many of the Names or surnames of all the major characters in the show.But there are some that i'm sure that we have not heard.

For example..
Sid and Ivys surname
Aunties first name
Nellys surname
And what about Entwhistle.

If these characters haven't got set names it would be fun to get peoples veiws on what their names are.

Ps can anyone else think of any that we have not heard.
 
I like to like to think of Entwhistle has Morris Entwhistle. :D
Sid and Ivy should be Tanner
Aunties first name should be Margret.
 
In I think series two, the cafe set had Beale printed on the door.

I imagine this was to provide continuity as I think the door had it on in real life at the time.

Good a name as any I suppose.

I can't see Sid as a Bowles, even at the golf club. Far too posh - reminds me of Peter Bowles in To the Manor Born!
 
wstol said:
In I think series two, the cafe set had Beale printed on the door.

I imagine this was to provide continuity as I think the door had it on in real life at the time.

Good a name as any I suppose.

I can't see Sid as a Bowles, even at the golf club. Far too posh - reminds me of Peter Bowles in To the Manor Born!
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Did not think of that :) :)
 
remember when we first met him we found out that entwistle's real surname was macintyre but no mention of his first name but it was probly a chinese name seeing thats where he descends from, i like to think as sid and ivy could be walker's, marina could be a wilkinson (same as barry but a different family) and thats why the ladies didnt like her cause people thought barry and her was related, as for auntie i think maybe some sort of long name like esmeralde which is why every1 stuck to auntie wainwright
 
Eli Thingy said:
remember when we first met him we found out that entwistle's real surname was macintyre but no mention of his first name but it was probly a chinese name seeing thats where he descends from, i like to think as sid and ivy could be walker's, marina could be a wilkinson (same as barry but a different family) and thats why the ladies didnt like her cause people thought barry and her was related, as for auntie i think maybe some sort of long name like esmeralde which is why every1 stuck to auntie wainwright
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Marina Walker.. Yes I like that. :D
 
I am going to use this thread as one of my "unknowing American trying to gain a better understand of England" moments. I caught a glimpse of an Open All Hours episode earlier and the name Ernshaw was used, which reminds me of this....

The full names Clarke uses in Summer wine often have a poetic feel. Sure, as CW Northrop indicated, the main characters just go by one name (either first or last). However, the show often starts by the guys taking about people from ther childhood and they use the full names. Someone in the past made a comment along the lines of Arkwright or Wainwright being a "northern name", if I recall correctly. So, here it goes.

Not all but most of the surnames in Summer Wine are a bit long, almost like a compound word-type name. For example....Simmonite, Hinchcliffe, Truelove, Arkwright, Wainwright, Northrop, Hemingway, Northrop, Dewhurst, etc. Are these longer names traditionally Northern names? When I think of common British names I think of Jones, Smith, etc. Are those shorter names more common in the South.

In all of Clarke's comedies, I rarely hear a common name such as Smith or Jones. I think he plays a bit on poetic sounding names to add to the character's comic personalities.


Thoughts anyone?
 
I agree. You wouldn't get many common names in Holmfirth, so Roy will have been trying to get the viewer wondering why they have long names, but then soon after you get used to them as household names. The only short one is Clegg, so quite good surname work.
 
I could be way off the mark here with my theory on surnames, but i believe that surnames where derived from the sort of work a men did. For example a blacksmith would get Smith and his son Smithson etc. This could have started way back to the Viking invasion, with the art of adding 'son' to the end of the farther's forename (Anderson and many more) thus getting Johnson, Thompson and many more.
 
I would imagine Roy Clarke thought up names that would be in keeping with the area he is writing about.He also uses catchy,easily remembered names,possibly ones that he thinks will fit a particular character.He also uses names that sort of run of the tongue very naturally and easily,a bit like rhythm in musical notes.It would be hard to imagine Foggy as Foggy Jones,Foggy Smith but Foggy Dewhurst is spot on.Imagine Auntie as Auntie Walker,Wilson and so on,they just dont hit the mark as well as Auntie Wainwright.

Hector.
 
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