There is one episode where Nora and Compo are both in the same shot, when she is looking up at his window. You'll have to watch my Location Trivia video to see where Compo's bedroom window really was!
We had one in the mid-to-late-1970s. I only vaguely remember when as I know we we moved in or a bit before 1973. It was nothing like Aunties shop van, just an ordinary Bedford panel van, I guess it had a side door - but I do remember the back doors opening and it almost resembled A-A-Arkwright's...
Oh! What a disappointment - it's wasn't "a hilarious name" ... but it does have the following wording on the side of the driver's cab: "Fish & Chip Saloon". 'Saloon'? That's not the first word I'd associate with a chippy - and - the van isn't an 'eat in' affair, so ....?
they look like flies on the windscreen!
The choppers from Turweston didn't fly over us unless they had to re-route due to crowding, there's another airfield at Hinton in the Hedges a few miles to the west (left)
I lived in a small town called Brackley near Silverstone for 17 years. During the first part of that time every year when the British Grand Prix was on, just 6 miles down the road, the main road through town and town centre came to a standstill. Clogged with cars looking for a place to stop...
we get hospital appointment letters the day after the appointment, and the doctor confirmed one clinic said he cancelled a referral to them, despite the doc not contacting them since making the referral! If you want an appointment for the 'pain clinic' expect them to contact you next May. all...
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