Peter Sallis and Bill Owen co-starred in Britain’s longest ... new meaning when the stars chose to be buried in neighbouring graves in Yorkshire despite both being from London.

Last of The Summer Wine stars Peter Sallis and Bill Owen have been buried next to each other in the picturesque town where the show is filmed. The pair became close friends over the 26 years they ...

Local greengrocer Alan Bray and a friend of Bill’s who arranged his funeral, said: “Peter wanted to be by the side of his friend even though they were both Londoners. “It is a very nice end ...

Last of The Summer Wine stars Peter Sallis and Bill Owen have been buried next to each other in the picturesque town where the show is filmed. The pair became close friends over the 26 years they ...

Peter Sallis ... died last year. Bill Owen (centre) and Brian Wilde also starred in Last of the Summer Wine As other actors came and went in Last of the Summer Wine, Sallis remained one of the ...

Peter Sallis, whose death at 96 was announced last week, said he owed his life to his Last Of The Summer Wine co-star Bill Owen. Owen, who played Compo to Sallis’s Clegg, inadvertently came to his ...

Image caption, Peter Sallis, Bill Owen and Michael Bates - the original trio in Last of the Summer Wine As well as Summer Wine, Sallis appeared in the Pallisers and The Diary of Samuel Pepys.

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