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Cleggy, played by Peter Sallis, is definitely the quiet one of the three...and can be completely unnerved when it comes to the opposite sex. The very mention of Norah Battye or Auntie Wainwright is enough to get him running!

Where have you heard Peter's distinctive voice recently? Apart from many TV adverts, one of his unusual roles included Ratty in the lovely-animated film The Wind in the Willows.

He has been a star of the stage and his film roles have included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Wuthering Heights.

 

Truly: Frank Thornton

To many people, particularly those abroad, Herbert "Truly" Truelove is still fondly remembered as the famous Captain Peacock from the old BBC Sitcom Are You Being Served!

In the series, Truly was a former schoolchum of the famous "two" but then moved "down South" in search of new horizons.

He ended up as a detective with the Metropolitan Police where he was known as Truly of the Yard. He was introduced to the series in 1997 after switching on the Christmas Lights in Holmfirth!

Now that Compo has sadly past away, what will happen to the formidable character of Nora Batty, a famous icon with her curlers and wrinkled stockings?

Nora – who was continually chased by cheeky Compo – has been in the series since the very first pilot in 1972. In a later interview, she said the part originally called for a fat lady to look as dreadful as possible!

And it is a compliment to Nora that she does not appear to have changed much over the years.

If Nora looks at home in the series, it is because she lives over the Pennines in Dukinfield, Greater Manchester.

Nora has been a familiar face in many popular TV programmes including Open All Hours, Crossroads, Coronation Street and the classic Sez Les.

Memorable quotes from the series
Reproduced by kind permission of the Summer Wine Appreciation Society


"WHO'S FEELING EJECTED THEN?"
Marina - Do you sometimes wish I'd taken the initiative?
Howard - Oh! Do you want to cycle in front?

Wesley - (from underneath a car) Is that Compo and Cleggy? I can see some feet.
Clegg - Say "hello" to Wesley, feet.

Compo - I know where Nora keeps all her old vests.
Clegg - I don't think we wish to know that.
Compo - Ah! She uses 'em for dusters, and her dusters are still whiter than my vests.

"THE FLAG AND ITS SNAGS"
Clegg - (to Sid) Where is the lady of the house?
Sid - she's out in front.
Compo - In a very big way.

Foggy - (to Compo) If you've got to go hill climbing in wellies,
couldn't you have got a racing pair.

"THE FLAG AND FURTHER SNAGS"
Compo wants to take Nora for a spin in the commodore's Rolls Royce Wally - I don't care if you take her for a spin in a tumble direr.

"STOP THAT CASTLE"
Having just hired the bouncy castle from Auntie Wainwright, Foggy is pushing it along on an old pram.
Foggy - Thank God my little native tribesmen in Burma can't see me now. "What is this?" they would say "He who walks with danger pushing a pram"

Compo - I've known quite a few who've walked with danger and ended up pushing a pram!

"HERE WE GO AGAIN INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER"
Ivy - (to Nora who's looking for Wally) How come you let yours slip his lead. I always thought of you as a model of advanced husband training.