Memories of old Portchester in pictures | Nostalgia
They could easily have been an early incarnation of Compo, Foggy and Clegg.
For Last of the Summer Wine might have taken its inspiration from this picture of four Portchester gents sitting and watching the world go by. It was probably taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
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