Houses of the characters

[captain clutterbuck]

Congratulations on your promotion to LOTSW Fanatic

thank you Barry much appreciated no salute required , I have plagiarised one of Spike Milligan's poems to celebrate :-

My Name is Captain Fanatic fan
I walk about the town
Sometimes with my Trousers up
and sometimes with them down
and when they were up they were up
and when they were down ................. I got arrested .

 

[maltrab]

If you look in the pictures, there's a bathtub in the woods, you simply sit in that Compo style and before you know it you're speeding down the hill towards Holmfirth

Well we never really got to know what happened to the bathtub, so maybe after they run away from the ladies, that is where they dumped it

 

[ChrisB]

Just a bit of fun, if you had the chance would you want to have lived in any of the characters' houses, and if so which one?

I think it would have to be Truly's House, as it the type of house that I am used too.

 

[RickAns]

Trying to think of when we saw Truly's house. Could you name an episode, please?

 

[ChrisB]

Trying to think of when we saw Truly's house. Could you name an episode, please?

It was the episode, were Cooper & Walsh, drop off a crate of White Overalls, which were later used to spell out "See Ya Compo"

 

[Graham]

And again when Wesley was crowbaring the crate open & the call came to go to the hospital to see Compo.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Trying to think of when we saw Truly's house. Could you name an episode, please?

It's marked on Terry's Summerwine Map Rick number 14 in the list and there is a picture of it as the house looks now changed a lot since they filmed . If you use streetview on Google maps and move down Sude Hill you come to a church that has also featured in the show [13 on the Map] . I suppose if I was Terry I would set you a quiz to see if you know which episode that appeared in.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

I have mentioned heritage walks in this thread and yesterday I attended a walk in a suburb of Newcastle called Jesmond . To my surprise I learned that the mother of the infamous Butch Cassidy , Ann Campbell Gillies, was born and raised in this house before the family relocated to the States.

Ann met and married Maximilian Parker with whom she had 14 children one of them was Robert [ the infamous Butch Cassidy and member of the hole in the wall gang to be ] .

Had Ann and Maximilian decided to relocate to her birthplace of the UK could Butch have become a member of the gap in the fence gang or if they moved to the Midlands the Bandit from Stoke in Trent.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Yesterday was a rich day the photograph below is the house of Arthur Fenwick he of the major store Fenwick's in Newcastle famous for their Christmas window display . Clearly Arthur was eccentric but was absolutely besotted with all things Circus here is a little precis about him . Koringa who features in the inset picture took one of her animals , a crocodile, into Fenwick's store at the request of Arthur and this is the local paper reporting that .

Arthur Fenwick — La Bonche Circus Research

www.labonche.net

Why visitors to Fenwick's in Newcastle once came face to face with a crocodile

Arthur Fenwick, son of the founder of Fenwick's, had a fascination with circus acts. His collection is on display at the Discovery Museum

www.chroniclelive.co.uk