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The one story that I remember of him was...Being a welder he made a small sidecar to go onto the B.S.A. Bantam motorbike that he used to come to work on. It only had a wooden box fitted to it to transport his guns and his dog when he went shooting on the marsh of Neston. Anyway, one cold winter's morning he was coming to work on the outfit and being a cold morning with just a couple of feet of mist on the marsh road he climbed into the sidecar and used his hand to change the gears. He was going along very well until a car came from the other direction.

Billy ducked his head down as the car went by giving the driver a terrible fright. The incident was reported to security as there being a riderless motorcycle going like a bat out of hell across the marsh! Mr Knight, security (Mr McKay the prison officer in Porridge must have been modelled on him) knew exactly who was to blame but couldn't prove it. I'm sure there are lots more stories of Billy, a great character like so many at Shotton.