{"id":149,"date":"2014-12-07T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2014-12-07T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T18:34:38","slug":"willie-williamson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/07\/willie-williamson\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson, Willie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/WillieWilliamson001.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/WillieWilliamson001.jpg\" data-thumb=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/WillieWilliamson001-288x300.jpg\" class=\"ml-lightbox-enabled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-887 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/WillieWilliamson001-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"WillieWilliamson001\" width=\"300\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a>Like many other of the older men in Whalsay, Willie was a retired seaman and fisherman. \u00a0He first went to \u2018the fishing\u2019 as a 15-year-old, spending two years as a cook and one as a deck hand.\u00a0 Then, from 1920, \u00a0he sailed on tramp steamers until 1928 when he joined the City and Blue Funnel lines as a quartermaster.\u00a0During\u00a0 World War Two \u00a0he worked for the Air Ministry at Sumburgh, returning afterwards to Whalsay to spend the rest of his working career as the local \u00a0&#8216;postie&#8217;. 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