Updated on February 12, 2016 at 9:59 AM Posted on February 11, 2016 at 11:44 AM. Valentine's Day 2016 by the numbers Americans spent more money on Valentine's Day related goods and services last year than the GDP of more than 80 countries, roughly $19 billion. Americans ate 58 million pounds of chocolate and red roses were actually the second most popular flower shop purchase.
Due to a terrible blizzard in February 2015, our event at a parish in Worcester, Massachusetts was rescheduled for the lovely month of May. The month of Mary our Mother. Looking back, I truly see our Ladyâs hand involved and having much to due with the unforgettable meeting we had with an unforgettable priest, Fr. Dermot Roache, SMA.
Bill Owen (who played Compo) made the area his second home. He died in July 1999 and is buried nearby in the village of Upperthong. Many of the canal scenes in Last of the Summer Wine were filmed at Slaithwaite, which is frequently used as a location in ITV's 'Where the Heart Is'.Slaithwaite features in the canal section of this web site.Bamforths produced their saucy seaside postcards of nagging (buxom) wives and their (scrawny) hen pecked husbands at Holmfirth. Bamforths were also producers of 'Magic Lantern' slide shows and silent films.t's 'easy watching' TV, in the same mould as Heartbeat, Monarch Of The Glen, Where the Heart is and Ballykissangel. Downham's village pub, the Assheton Arms features in the programme as The Signalman's Arms. Damens railway station (Britain's smallest) is 20 miles from Downham and is seen as Ormston in the TV series.