Alan Bell's book confirms they had planned to bring Seymour back in occasional guest appearances (that's why the character is said to be only moving 20 or 30 miles away) but due to his wife's illness they didn't find a way to do that...
I know he left the series with an extremely heavy heart to nurse his wife who had dementia. I'm unsure whether it was the plan for him to return, but apparently he was a much loved member of the cast.
Compo/ Nora's doesn't have a back entrance. They are back-to-back houses, so only have 'front doors / windows, they share a 'party wall' with the property that backs on to them. The Wrinkled Stocking has been 'knocked through' to become...
Remember a scene in Forked Lightning where there's a scene in which Sid runs around outside on Clegg's Bike, something similar happens in an episode of Open All Hours in which Arkwright is doing the same but he ends up colliding into...
Of course I have no idea whether he had sons or daughters, but let's just say he has an adult daughter who is married and has school-aged children. So she does what she can in terms of helping with logistics, of care for her mother but...