Billy disappeared for a long while, then I was passed an email from a male nurse at the county hospital in Dorset to say he was ill with a series of strokes but remembered his time at AT fondly. I wrote back but, sad to relate, I never got a reply. That was a few years ago. I suspect he's no longer with us.
Bill was a one off (thankfully, for womankind) but working with him was more fun than working with most of the anodyne zombies and forelock-tuggers I've worked with since. I could write a feature about him that would astonish most people. He was badly-behaved, anarchic, sometimes lazy, but he could sniff out a matchwinner at half a mile, and could even make every one of the Barnsley Blacks smile in unison for a picture. He's among the old mates I miss the most.
They were great days, ED
