The threesome of Compo, Clegg and Foggy ( this third character was initially Blamire, played by Michael Bates and when Brian Wilde's Foggy took a hiatus, by Michael Aldridge's Seymour Utterthwaite ) remains the most popular group of three the show ever produced.

The original trio consisted of Bill Owen as the scruffy and childlike Compo Simmonite, Peter Sallis as deep-thinking and meek Norman Clegg and Michael Bates as authoritarian and snobbish Cyril Blamire.

He was soon joined by an actor he had previously worked with, comedy actor Michael Bates as Cyril Blamire.

Michael Bates later appeared on television as Blamire in Last of the Summer Wine and as Rangi Ram in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

Sallis had already worked with Michael Bates, who played unofficial ring-leader Blamire in the first two series, on stage.

Bates appeared in many UK television series including Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 to 1975 as Cyril Blamire and It Ain't Half Hot Mum from 1974 to 1977 as Rangi Ram, as well as many others.

In January of 2012, Blamire announced on his Facebook page that a third picture, The Lost Skeleton Walks Among Us, was in development.

Written by Roy Clark as an unbroadcast original story, the novel featured Compo, Clegg and Blamire helping their friend, Sam, enjoy one last night with a glam girl.

The book became the basis for the Last of the Summer Wine film, " Getting Sam Home ", with Blamire being replaced by Foggy.

Set in 1961, the film begins with scientist Dr. Paul Armstrong ( Larry Blamire ) and his wife Betty ( Fay Masterson ) driving into the mountains.

Pauline Murray featured briefly with The Invisible Girls, which also included Robert Blamire as well as other Manchester musicians who drifted in and out such as Vini Reilly, guitarist in The Durutti Column.

Pauline Murray worked sporadically as a solo artist under the name ' Pauline Murray and The Storm ' with Robert Blamire, Tim Johnston and Paul Harvey.

The original trio consisted of Compo Simmonite, Norman Clegg and Cyril Blamire.

Notable poets later in the period include Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Joanna Baillie, Susanna Blamire, Felicia Hemans, Mary Leapor, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hannah More, and Mary Robinson.

* 1883-Sold by the descendants of the Haggas family, ( Blamire and Craven ) to Richard Longdon Hattersly.

Envelopes, Registered envelopes and Newspaper wrappers were first issued in 1913, using the " Kangaroo on Map " " Stamp " design by Blamire Young.

Susanna Blamire ( 1747 – 1794 ), poet, was of good Cumberland family, and received the sobriquet of The Muse of Cumberland.

Susanna Blamire was an exceptional poet living in an isolated rural area of Cumberland during the eighteenth century.

Apart from poetry Blamire wrote songs, accompanied on a guitar or flageolet.

Larry Blamire acted in and directed the film, wrote its screenplay and provided the voice of the Skeleton.

* Larry Blamire as Dr. Paul Armstrong

A sequel, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, was filmed in March 2008, again written and directed by Blamire, and featuring virtually all of the original cast ( though three actors whose characters were killed in the original are back in different roles ), as well as several actors who appeared in Blamire's subsequent Trail of the Screaming Forehead.

Factory on August 17, 2010, as was another Blamire film, Dark and Stormy Night.

Other members have included Robert Blamire, Gary Smallman, and Gary Chaplin, and later Neale Floyd and Fred Purser.

In 1969, Colombia formed what is now the Andean Community along with Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru ( Venezuela joined in 1973, and Chile left in 1976 ).

This lineup of Devo lasted until 1976 when Jim left the band.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

Nigerian contract laborers on Bioko, estimated to have been 60, 000, left en masse in early 1976.

This left the sole United Kingdom gunpowder factory at ICI Nobel's Ardeer site in Scotland ; it too closed in October 1976.

The group broke up 1976 when Lander and McKean left to perform in the sitcom Laverne & Shirley.

She worked for the Judiciary Circuit, and left the state's attorney's office in 1976 to become a partner in a private law firm.

Early in 1976, Hell left The Heartbreakers ; he soon formed a new group that would become known as The Voidoids, " one of the most harshly uncompromising bands " on the scene.

Canada joined the G7 group of major economic powers in 1976, after being left out of the first set of meetings.

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When Nixon left in 1973, Tom Lavery began drawing the strip, who was then followed by Frank McDiarmid in 1976.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

Lucian Pulvermacher, who left the Roman Catholic Church in 1976 and in October 1998 was elected Pope of the conclavist " True Catholic Church " with the name of " Pius XIII ".

Skateboarders, most notably Ty Page, Bruce Logan, Bobby Piercy, Kevin Reed, and the Z-Boys ( so-called because of their local Zephyr surf shop ) started to skate the vertical walls of swimming pools that were left empty in the 1976 California drought.

This grouping of " neo-fundamentalists " have their roots within the camp of the former high-profile Labour Party MP Jim Sillars who left Labour to form the short-lived Scottish Labour Party in 1976 ( the party had no connection with the UK Labour Party or the current Scottish Labour group in the Scottish Parliament ).

Strachan had solo releases since 1976 and finally left the band in 1978 and was also a radio and television presenter.

They recorded the album Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers ( 1976 ), but Robinson again left after Richman persisted in reducing the size and volume of his drum kit, and was replaced by D. Sharpe.

The Z80 came about when Federico Faggin, after working on the 8080, left Intel at the end of 1974 to found Zilog with Ralph Ungermann, and by July 1976 they had the Z80 on the market.

From 1976 to 1988 the American composer Janet Maguire, convinced that the whole ending is coded in the sketches left by Puccini, composed a new ending, but this has never been performed.

From 1976 onwards many 70 mm prints used Dolby noise reduction on the magnetic tracks but Dolby disapproved of the " spread " and instead re-allocated the 6 available tracks to provide for left, center and right screen channels, left and right surround channels plus a " low-frequency enhancement " channel to give more body to low-frequency bass.

Menem Carlos " el patillas " La Rioja in 1973, a prominent post that left him exposed after the overthrow of President Isabel Martínez de Perón in March 1976.

Bob Dole ( far left ) at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City with ( from left ) Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Susan Ford and Betty Ford

The Canadian Royal Family gathers in Brome Lake, Quebec, 1976 ( left to right: the Duke of Edinburgh, Anne, Princess Royal | Princess Anne, Mark Phillips, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Prince Edward, the Queen, Prince Andrew, Duke of York | Prince Andrew, and Charles, Prince of Wales