A True Story

Wandering Willy.


Hi Barry
Thanks for the pictures of WONDERING WILLY,....can i tell you a funny story about that name...
It is something that happened to me...my sister..and a friend when we were about 13/14

Near where we lived, there was a coffee bar that all the kids used to hang around in after school
Once we had been good and done our home work of course...ha ha
Anyway one evening we 3 girls were just coming home, and it was just getting dark, ...it was safe walking the streets in those days,
Anyway we were just going passed the church yard on the other side of the road, wouldn't dare go on the side of the church yard too creepy, anyway we heard whistling the sort of whistle you would call a dog with, and when we looked over this man was standing with ( yes the flashers mac ) and his trousers down to his knees, and he was rocking backwards and forwards patting his tummy
Well you can imagine, we just ran, in those days there was always a copper when you wanted one, and those little police phone boxes.
As we got round the corner we saw a copper, when i think back now he was only young, he must have been in his 20's,
Anyway we told him what we had seen and he came back round with us to see if he was still there, well of course he wasn't,.....this copper took our names and addresses, and by then he had been joined by another copper, anyway this young copper said to us , ...you know don't you that if we catch him you might have to go to court ( i realise now that he was just having a laugh ) they were safe to do that in those days,...and the judge will ask you what it looked like, ...well you can imagine can't you we were scared and of course worried what our parents would say , my dad was very strict.
Anyway we went on our way and we called him WONDERING WILLY and to this day that name has stuck..... wonder if they ever found him.

Just thought you would like that
Love Lo xx