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Second day of viewing the sun. The sky was thick with clouds, which at time would completely obstruct the view of the sun.
August 19, 2022
Cook County, Illinois, USA
Viewed from my backyard, handheld, using certified viewing glasses and a "white light" lens filter-77-T by Thousand Oaks Optical of Kingman, Arizona. This type of filter is used to detect sunspots and granulation. It protects the lens, camera and eyes from permanent damage that would occur from looking directly at the sun.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1291725
Date First Listed : 6 June 1951
The windmill, dating from 1805, is a tower mill and stands on Lytham Green. It was operational until 1918, and was restored in 1987. The windmill is in rendered brick on a plinth of cobble walling, and has a wooden cap and sails. It contains a doorway and windows, and at the top is a boat-shaped cap and fantail.
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
The Eurythmics
Listed Building Grade II*
List Entry Number : 1271154
Date First Listed : 03 October 1974
Hotel. 1898-1903, by Charles Trubshaw, for the Midland Railway Company; altered. Steel frame, with cladding of brown polished granite, red brick and much buff and brown glazed terracotta (roof not visible). Very large irregular pentagon plan on island site. Elaborate eclectic Baroque style. Five diminishing storeys with cellars and attics, the principal element of the facade to Peter Street 2:4:2 bays, symmetrical, plus a 3-bay portion to the left slightly canted back, and 3-sided corners to both ends; the paired bays bounded on the inner side by fenestrated 3-sided pilasters finished as turrets, and surmounted by elaborate attic gables; with cornice and balustraded parapet over ground floor, giant round-headed arches to the next 3 floors, small coupled round-headed arches to the 4th floor, a bracketed cornice and pierced parapet, and gabled attic dormers over the centre. The ground floor, of polished granite, has a recessed central entrance under 2 massive semi-circular arches (like shipping holes of neighbouring canal warehouses), a roundel between containing a wyvern, and a convex frieze above with raised lettering "MIDLAND HOTEL"; and coupled round-headed arches to the outer bays with terracotta mullion-and-transom windows, the basement areas below these protected by bowed wrought-iron railings in Art Nouveau style. The windows of the upper floors are mostly coupled, those at 3rd and 4th floors round-headed, all with wrought-iron balcony railings and much terracotta enrichment. The canted portion to the left, the longer side walls (to Lower Mosley Street and Mount Street) and the shorter rear wall (to Windmill Street) are in generally similar style, but the Lower Mosley Street facade has segmental curved balconies to the 1st floor and bow-shaped balconies to the 2nd floor, and the rear facade has domed corner turrets. Interior: originally had a palm court, concert hall, winter gardens, Russian and Turkish baths, roof garden, 23 lifts, three and a half miles of corridors and 400 bedrooms; ground floor altered and upper floors not inspected. Very prominent building representative of the cosmopolitan wealth and taste of late C19 Manchester, and an early example of a steel-framed building.
Malcolm Roberton's statue of popular Scottish comics character Oor Wullie ("our William), who first appeared in the Sunday Post way back in 1936, and is still going.
Created by editor R D Low and drawn by the legendary Dudley D Watkins (who continued to draw the strip until he passed away in 1969), Wullie is recognisable in his dungarees and spiky hair, with this trusty bucket which he usually sits on. In the statue form he is also holding a classic kid's toy/weapon, the pea shooter.
The statue sits next to the excellent McManus art gallery and museum, facing across the road to the imposing offices of D.C Thomson, his publisher.
I had to explain to a French chum who Oor Wullie was, and jokingly referred to him a "notre Guillame" so they got it!
ID
1426314
Listing Date
26 June 2002
This pub existed by 1910 but was probably built around 1900, when Robert Haslam was recorded as operating a beerhouse on the site on Union Street. The building has sandstone ashlar walls with timber framing above, and has elements of the Arts and Crafts style. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters with decorative carvings, and immediately above this is an intricate plaster panel with the name of the pub. Some of the windows have stained glass and leaded lights
The offices of the famous D C Thomson, publishers of many well-known titles across the decades, including newspapers and comics, some of which, like The Beano, are still going decades on.
Malcolm Roberton's statue of popular Scottish comics character Oor Wullie ("our William), who first appeared in the Sunday Post way back in 1936, and is still going.
Created by editor R D Low and drawn by the legendary Dudley D Watkins (who continued to draw the strip until he passed away in 1969), Wullie is recognisable in his dungarees and spiky hair, with this trusty bucket which he usually sits on. In the statue form he is also holding a classic kid's toy/weapon, the pea shooter.
The statue sits next to the excellent McManus art gallery and museum, facing across the road to the imposing offices of D.C Thomson, his publisher.
I had to explain to a French chum who Oor Wullie was, and jokingly referred to him a "notre Guillame" so they got it!
Agh! This is SO cool 🎉❤🎉
Thank you Washington Post & @BonnieBenwick !!!
Two page spread in the #SundayPost ✨🌄✨
Listed Building Grade I
List Entry Number : 1207306
Date First Listed : 27 September 1979
Built between 1882 & 1893. The building was paid for from a bequest by Edmund Robert Harris, and was designed by James Hibbert. It is built in sandstone, and stands on a plinth in an elevated site in the town centre. The building is in Greek Revival style. In the main front is a giant portico of fluted Ionic columns flanked by three recessed bays with giant pilasters. In the tympanum of the portico is sculpture based on The Age of Pericles.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207306
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Preston,_Lancashire
1. 55,861 - 23/12/22
1. 57,114 - 08/01/23
1. 57,159 - 17/01/23
1. 57,213 - 27/01/23
1. 57,258 - 08/02/23
The statue was commissioned to mark the 80th anniversary of his first-ever appearance in The Sunday Post.
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Oor Wullie is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post. It features a character called Wullie, the familiar Scots nickname for boys named William. His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he often uses as a seat - most strips since early 1937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket. The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!"). The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).
Created by Thomson editor R. D. Low and drawn by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip first appeared on 8 March 1936. Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s. New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon. Ken H. Harrison drew the strip from 1989 until 1997, when Davidson resumed duties. Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division. The current writer is former Dandy editor Morris Heggie. [Wikipedia]
I passed this beauty on my way down to Aberdeen Harbour this afternoon Sunday 24th March 2019, I asked the driver if I could take some photos , he agreed, we chatted for a while discussing the truck its background etc, it was a fine half hour indeed, posting a few of the shots I captured.
Vehicle details
Vehicle make: DAF TRUCKS
Date of first registration: April 2017
Year of manufacture: 2017
Cylinder capacity (cc): 12902 cc
CO₂Emissions: 0 g/km
Fuel type: DIESEL
Export marker: No
Vehicle status: Taxed and due
Vehicle colour: BLUE
Vehicle type approval: N3
Wheelplan: 3-AXLE + ARTIC
Revenue weight: 44000kg
Customised Colours - Oor Wullie
Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.
It features a character called Wullie Russell.
Wullie is the familiar Scots nickname for boys named William.
His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat - most strips since early 1937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket.
The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!"). The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since.
A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).
Created by Thomson editor R. D. Low and drawn by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip first appeared on 8 March 1936. Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s.
New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon. Ken H. Harrison drew the strip from 1989 until 1997, when Davidson resumed duties. Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division.
The current writer is former Dandy editor Morris Heggie.
lthough Wullie's hometown was unnamed in the original Watkins strips, it has been called Auchenshoogle since the late 1990s.
Wullie and his friends roam the streets of his town, though he is sometimes depicted at school which he finds confining. Praise from his teacher, who addresses him as "William", is rare and acutely embarrassing. His adventures often consist of unrealistic get-rich-quick schemes that lead to mischief, to the despair of his parents Ma and Pa and local policeman P.C. Joe Murdoch. Wullie's gang consists of himself, Fat Bob, Wee Eck (Eng: Little Alex), 'Soapy' Soutar (/ˈsoʊtər/) and Primrose Paterson (an annoying girl who likes Wullie, but who Wullie often does not want to be in the gang, yet manages to be much better than him in various games and activities such as football, racing, climbing trees and firing a catapult). Wullie is the self-proclaimed leader, a position which is frequently disputed by the others. In early strips the gang met in a wooden shed - usually located in the garden at Wullie's house. In later strips the gang meets in a derelict caravan called Holly Rude. He used to have another friend called Ezzy, who has stopped appearing in the strips, along with Wullie's unnamed little brother.
He owns a pet mouse named Jeemy and in later strips a pet dog called Harry. In the Ken Harrison strips he gained additional supporting characters, such as the pretty Doris Gow (whom Wullie likes, much to Primrose's rage), her boyfriend, the town bully Basher McKenzie, and grumpy old neighbour Moaning Mildew (modelled on Victor Meldrew from One Foot in the Grave).
Wullie's age has not been consistent, in the early Watkins scripts he looked about 5 or 6, in later Watkins scripts he looked about 10 or 11, more recently he has become slightly younger.
William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, Secretary of State for Scotland 1964-70 and 1974–76, was occasionally depicted in political cartoons seated on a bucket as Oor Wullie.
In March 2006, BBC Scotland documentary Happy Birthday Oor Wullie celebrated the strip's 70th and TV show's 28th birthday with celebrity guests including Karen Dunbar, Sanjeev Kohli, Kaye Adams, Iain Robertson, Tony Roper, Tam Cowan, Stuart Cosgrove and Dominik Diamond, and was narrated by Billy Boyd.
When The Topper launched in 1953, Oor Wullie appeared in the masthead, although not as a story in the comic. He often appeared sitting on his bucket, though other poses were used as well.
The pose on Topper no. 1 had him wearing a top hat. He had the top hat in one hand and the other hand pointing at the Topper logo. Early annuals were undated, so this information is to help identify them. Later annuals had the copyright date inside them.
Annuals
Starting in 1940 the Oor Wullie strips also appeared in the form of a Christmas annual which alternated every second year with “The Broons”, another D. C. Thomson product. (No annuals were published between 1943 and 1946.) Pre-1966 annuals were undated. Starting in 2015, both titles are now published annually.
A facsimile of the first The Broons annual was released on 25 November 2006 and of the first Oor Wullie annual the following year.
Since 1996 - the 60th anniversary of the strip - D.C. Thomson has also published a series of compilation albums featuring The Broons and Oor Wullie on alternate pages.
The early stories are often recycled in current annuals. An example being the “twin cousin” story in the 2018 annual being first seen in the fifties.
Oor Wullie's Bucket Trail 2016
In celebration of Oor Wullie's 80th anniversary in 2016, he was the subject of a major public art project when 55 decorated 5ft sculptures of him were placed around Dundee and its environs with another 13 touring round Scotland over an 8 week period.
Additionally 29 smaller versions of the sculptures were designed by school children in Dundee as part of an education programme connected with the trail. There were also two smaller community sculptures.
As of 2017, the Bucket Trail was the largest mass public art project to have taken place in Scotland.[3] The project ran from 27 June for two months, with the sculptures being auctioned in September for £883,000.
The proceeds went to the Archie Foundation’s appeal to raise money for a new pediatric surgical suite at Tayside Children's Hospital.
The event attracted large numbers of visitors to Dundee, while the city's inhabitants showed enthusasism towards the project.
Prior to the auction, a farewell event held in Dundee's Slessor Gardens from 9-11 September saw 95 Oor Wullie statues on public display and sold over 12,000 tickets.
Ultimately about 20,000 people attended the event. Each statue has its own unique design, for instance one entitled Oor Bowie, was inspired by David Bowie, while a spaceman-themed statue was inspired by Tim Peake.
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I have enjoyed this magnificent charity event in our beautiful city
Aberdeen Scotland 2019.
I have visited every location where each sculpture is located, witnessing the joy this event brings to the people of Aberdeen, a positive impact on everyone, it is a joy, credit to all local artists who have given their time and produced these joys, I post below information on the event and the character Oor Wullie below.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail 2019
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail, our first nationwide public art trail, takes place in Scotland in summer 2019. The event supports children’s hospital charities and celebrates Scotland’s favourite son, Oor Wullie.
It features more than 150 human-sized sculptures decorated by artists and each reflecting Scotland’s cultural identity. It runs for eleven weeks, from June to September 2019, taking to the streets of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness
Trail: 17 June – 30 August 2019
Partner: DC Thomson Media and Scotland’s three children’s hospital charities
Charity: Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity, ARCHIE Foundation and Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity
Event website: oorwullie.com
The Trail
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail runs for 11 weeks from 17th June 2019 – 30th August 2019, culminating in a series of Farewell Events and nationwide auctions in each of the five host cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Scotland’s first ever national public art trail aims to unite the country as it raises awareness and vital funds for Scotland’s children’s hospital charities.
No matter who you are or where you live, you can get involved with Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail by:
Exploring the trails in each city with your friends and family
Getting involved with your school and learning all about Oor Wullie and our heritage .
Bidding on a sculpture in our auctions at the end of the trail
Funds raised through the trail will support Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity,Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity,and the ARCHIE Foundation, helping children in hospital across the country.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail is a Wild in Art event, and would not be possible without the support of DC Thomson Media.
Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.
It features a character called Wullie Russell[citation needed]. Wullie is the familiar Scots nickname for boys named William.
His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat - most strips since early 1937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket.
The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!").
The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).
Created by Thomson editor R. D. Low and drawn by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip first appeared on 8 March 1936. Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s.
New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon. Ken H. Harrison drew the strip from 1989 until 1997, when Davidson resumed duties. Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division.
The current writer is former Dandy editor Morris Heggie.
Although Wullie's hometown was unnamed in the original Watkins strips, it has been called Auchenshoogle since the late 1990s.
Wullie and his friends roam the streets of his town, though he is sometimes depicted at school which he finds confining. Praise from his teacher, who addresses him as "William", is rare and acutely embarrassing. His adventures often consist of unrealistic get-rich-quick schemes that lead to mischief, to the despair of his parents Ma and Pa (Wullie’s Pa is called “Tam”, the only reference to this is in a strip from the sixties during a conversation between Pa and PC Murdoch) and local policeman P.C. Joe Murdoch. Wullie's gang consists of himself, Fat Bob, Wee Eck (Eng: Little Alex), 'Soapy' Soutar (/ˈsoʊtər/) and Primrose Paterson (an annoying girl who likes Wullie, but who Wullie often does not want to be in the gang, yet manages to be much better than him in various games and activities such as football, racing, climbing trees and firing a catapult). Wullie is the self-proclaimed leader, a position which is frequently disputed by the others. In early strips the gang met in a wooden shed - usually located in the garden at Wullie's house. In later strips the gang meets in a derelict caravan called Holly Rude. He used to have another friend called Ezzy, who has stopped appearing in the strips, along with Wullie's unnamed little brother. He owns a pet mouse named Jeemy and in later strips a pet dog called Harry. In the Ken Harrison strips he gained additional supporting characters, such as the pretty Doris Gow (whom Wullie likes, much to Primrose's rage), her boyfriend, the town bully Basher McKenzie, and grumpy old neighbour Moaning Mildew (modelled on Victor Meldrew from One Foot in the Grave).[citation needed]
Wullie's age has not been consistent, in the early Watkins scripts he looked about 5 or 6, in later Watkins scripts he looked about 10 or 11, more recently he has become slightly younger.
William Ross, Secretary of State for Scotland 1964-70 and 1974–76, was occasionally depicted in political cartoons seated on a bucket as Oor Wullie.
In March 2006, BBC Scotland documentary Happy Birthday Oor Wullie celebrated the strip's 70th and TV show's 28th birthday with celebrity guests including Karen Dunbar, Sanjeev Kohli, Kaye Adams, Iain Robertson, Tony Roper, Tam Cowan, Stuart Cosgrove and Dominik Diamond, and was narrated by Billy Boyd.
When The Topper launched in 1953, Oor Wullie appeared in the masthead, although not as a story in the comic. He often appeared sitting on his bucket, though other poses were used as well.
The pose on Topper no. 1 had him wearing a top hat. He had the top hat in one hand and the other hand pointing at the Topper logo.
Early annuals were undated, so this information is to help identify them. Later annuals had the copyright date inside them.
Annuals
Starting in 1940 the Oor Wullie strips also appeared in the form of a Christmas annual which alternated every second year with “The Broons”, another D. C. Thomson product. (No annuals were published between 1943 and 1946.)
Pre-1966 annuals were undated. Starting in 2015, both titles are now published annually.
A facsimile of the first The Broons annual was released on 25 November 2006 and of the first Oor Wullie annual the following year.
Since 1996 - the 60th anniversary of the strip - D.C. Thomson has also published a series of compilation books featuring The Broons and Oor Wullie on alternate pages.
The early stories are often recycled in current annuals. An example being the “twin cousin” story in the 2018 annual being first seen in the fifties.
Architect: John Shaw Snr. in the Neo-Gothic style, completed by his son John, 1833. Grade I listed parish church and Sunday school on the site of a church from the High Middle Ages. Three stage tower of Ketton stone. Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, City of London.
Lynsey Henderson
70, 5 foot high statues of the Scottish cartoon character "Oor Wullie" were cast and decorated by various artists.
Named after the pub/restaurant chain which sponsored it.
City Square, Dundee.
Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.
It features a character called Wullie Russell .
Wullie is the familiar Scots nickname for boys named William.
His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat - most strips since early 1ii937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket.
The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!").
The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).
Created by Thomson editor R. D. Low and drawn by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip first appeared on 8 March 1936.
Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s.
New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon. Ken H. Harrison drew the strip from 1989 until 1997, when Davidson resumed duties.
Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division.
The current writer is former Dandy editor Morris Heggie.
The Oor Wullie bucket Trail begins on the 17th June 2019 and is even bigger than the last one 3 years ago.
In 2016 Dundee held a bucket trail with over 50 sculptures all painted with different designs to celebrate 80 years of Oor Wullie.
This was a huge success with the sculptures raising over £800,000 at auction for the local childrens charity.
They have decided to bring it back this year but on a far bigger scale with 150 sculptures and this time you will be able to find them not only in Dundee, but Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and a few dotted in other towns and cities across the country.
At the end of the summer these will once again be auctioned off and the money will be split between 3 childrens charities.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail runs for 11 weeks from 17th June 2019 – 30th August 2019, culminating in a series of Farewell Events and nationwide auctions in each of the five host cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Scotland’s first ever national public art trail aims to unite the country as it raises awareness and vital funds for Scotland’s children’s hospital charities.
Funds raised through the trail will support Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity,Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity,and the ARCHIE Foundation, helping children in hospital across the country.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail is a Wild in Art event, and would not be possible without the support of DC Thomson Media.
I have taken a keen interest in this event and intend to capture all of the sculptures across the city, posting some of my favourite shots here on Flickr.
I passed this beauty on my way down to Aberdeen Harbour this afternoon Sunday 24th March 2019, I asked the driver if I could take some photos , he agreed, we chatted for a while discussing the truck its background etc, it was a fine half hour indeed, posting a few of the shots I captured.
Vehicle details
Vehicle make: DAF TRUCKS
Date of first registration: April 2017
Year of manufacture: 2017
Cylinder capacity (cc): 12902 cc
CO₂Emissions: 0 g/km
Fuel type: DIESEL
Export marker: No
Vehicle status: Taxed and due
Vehicle colour: BLUE
Vehicle type approval: N3
Wheelplan: 3-AXLE + ARTIC
Revenue weight: 44000kg
Customised Colours - Oor Wullie
Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.
It features a character called Wullie Russell.
Wullie is the familiar Scots nickname for boys named William.
His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat - most strips since early 1937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket.
The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!"). The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since.
A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).
Created by Thomson editor R. D. Low and drawn by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip first appeared on 8 March 1936. Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s.
New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon. Ken H. Harrison drew the strip from 1989 until 1997, when Davidson resumed duties. Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division.
The current writer is former Dandy editor Morris Heggie.
lthough Wullie's hometown was unnamed in the original Watkins strips, it has been called Auchenshoogle since the late 1990s.
Wullie and his friends roam the streets of his town, though he is sometimes depicted at school which he finds confining. Praise from his teacher, who addresses him as "William", is rare and acutely embarrassing. His adventures often consist of unrealistic get-rich-quick schemes that lead to mischief, to the despair of his parents Ma and Pa and local policeman P.C. Joe Murdoch. Wullie's gang consists of himself, Fat Bob, Wee Eck (Eng: Little Alex), 'Soapy' Soutar (/ˈsoʊtər/) and Primrose Paterson (an annoying girl who likes Wullie, but who Wullie often does not want to be in the gang, yet manages to be much better than him in various games and activities such as football, racing, climbing trees and firing a catapult). Wullie is the self-proclaimed leader, a position which is frequently disputed by the others. In early strips the gang met in a wooden shed - usually located in the garden at Wullie's house. In later strips the gang meets in a derelict caravan called Holly Rude. He used to have another friend called Ezzy, who has stopped appearing in the strips, along with Wullie's unnamed little brother.
He owns a pet mouse named Jeemy and in later strips a pet dog called Harry. In the Ken Harrison strips he gained additional supporting characters, such as the pretty Doris Gow (whom Wullie likes, much to Primrose's rage), her boyfriend, the town bully Basher McKenzie, and grumpy old neighbour Moaning Mildew (modelled on Victor Meldrew from One Foot in the Grave).
Wullie's age has not been consistent, in the early Watkins scripts he looked about 5 or 6, in later Watkins scripts he looked about 10 or 11, more recently he has become slightly younger.
William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, Secretary of State for Scotland 1964-70 and 1974–76, was occasionally depicted in political cartoons seated on a bucket as Oor Wullie.
In March 2006, BBC Scotland documentary Happy Birthday Oor Wullie celebrated the strip's 70th and TV show's 28th birthday with celebrity guests including Karen Dunbar, Sanjeev Kohli, Kaye Adams, Iain Robertson, Tony Roper, Tam Cowan, Stuart Cosgrove and Dominik Diamond, and was narrated by Billy Boyd.
When The Topper launched in 1953, Oor Wullie appeared in the masthead, although not as a story in the comic. He often appeared sitting on his bucket, though other poses were used as well.
The pose on Topper no. 1 had him wearing a top hat. He had the top hat in one hand and the other hand pointing at the Topper logo. Early annuals were undated, so this information is to help identify them. Later annuals had the copyright date inside them.
Annuals
Starting in 1940 the Oor Wullie strips also appeared in the form of a Christmas annual which alternated every second year with “The Broons”, another D. C. Thomson product. (No annuals were published between 1943 and 1946.) Pre-1966 annuals were undated. Starting in 2015, both titles are now published annually.
A facsimile of the first The Broons annual was released on 25 November 2006 and of the first Oor Wullie annual the following year.
Since 1996 - the 60th anniversary of the strip - D.C. Thomson has also published a series of compilation albums featuring The Broons and Oor Wullie on alternate pages.
The early stories are often recycled in current annuals. An example being the “twin cousin” story in the 2018 annual being first seen in the fifties.
Oor Wullie's Bucket Trail 2016
In celebration of Oor Wullie's 80th anniversary in 2016, he was the subject of a major public art project when 55 decorated 5ft sculptures of him were placed around Dundee and its environs with another 13 touring round Scotland over an 8 week period.
Additionally 29 smaller versions of the sculptures were designed by school children in Dundee as part of an education programme connected with the trail. There were also two smaller community sculptures.
As of 2017, the Bucket Trail was the largest mass public art project to have taken place in Scotland.[3] The project ran from 27 June for two months, with the sculptures being auctioned in September for £883,000.
The proceeds went to the Archie Foundation’s appeal to raise money for a new pediatric surgical suite at Tayside Children's Hospital.
The event attracted large numbers of visitors to Dundee, while the city's inhabitants showed enthusasism towards the project.
Prior to the auction, a farewell event held in Dundee's Slessor Gardens from 9-11 September saw 95 Oor Wullie statues on public display and sold over 12,000 tickets.
Ultimately about 20,000 people attended the event. Each statue has its own unique design, for instance one entitled Oor Bowie, was inspired by David Bowie, while a spaceman-themed statue was inspired by Tim Peake.
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Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.
It features a character called Wullie Russell .
Wullie is the familiar Scots nickname for boys named William.
His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat - most strips since early 1ii937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket.
The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!").
The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).
Created by Thomson editor R. D. Low and drawn by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip first appeared on 8 March 1936.
Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s.
New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon. Ken H. Harrison drew the strip from 1989 until 1997, when Davidson resumed duties.
Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division.
The current writer is former Dandy editor Morris Heggie.
The Oor Wullie bucket Trail begins on the 17th June 2019 and is even bigger than the last one 3 years ago.
In 2016 Dundee held a bucket trail with over 50 sculptures all painted with different designs to celebrate 80 years of Oor Wullie.
This was a huge success with the sculptures raising over £800,000 at auction for the local childrens charity.
They have decided to bring it back this year but on a far bigger scale with 150 sculptures and this time you will be able to find them not only in Dundee, but Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and a few dotted in other towns and cities across the country.
At the end of the summer these will once again be auctioned off and the money will be split between 3 childrens charities.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail runs for 11 weeks from 17th June 2019 – 30th August 2019, culminating in a series of Farewell Events and nationwide auctions in each of the five host cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Scotland’s first ever national public art trail aims to unite the country as it raises awareness and vital funds for Scotland’s children’s hospital charities.
Funds raised through the trail will support Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity,Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity,and the ARCHIE Foundation, helping children in hospital across the country.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail is a Wild in Art event, and would not be possible without the support of DC Thomson Media.
I have taken a keen interest in this event and intend to capture all of the sculptures across the city, posting some of my favourite shots here on Flickr.
Oor Wullie is the boy who always gets himself into scrapes. The iconic metal bucket he sits on is beside him.
Public artwork located outside the McManus art gallery in Dundee. The sculpture was created by Malcolm Robertson and shows the naughty boy holding his pea shooter.
Oor Wullie appears in the Sunday Post © DC Thomson.
I have enjoyed this magnificent charity event in our beautiful city
Aberdeen Scotland 2019.
I have visited every location where each sculpture is located, witnessing the joy this event brings to the people of Aberdeen, a positive impact on everyone, it is a joy, credit to all local artists who have given their time and produced these joys, I post below information on the event and the character Oor Wullie below.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail 2019
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail, our first nationwide public art trail, takes place in Scotland in summer 2019. The event supports children’s hospital charities and celebrates Scotland’s favourite son, Oor Wullie.
It features more than 150 human-sized sculptures decorated by artists and each reflecting Scotland’s cultural identity. It runs for eleven weeks, from June to September 2019, taking to the streets of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness
Trail: 17 June – 30 August 2019
Partner: DC Thomson Media and Scotland’s three children’s hospital charities
Charity: Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity, ARCHIE Foundation and Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity
Event website: oorwullie.com
The Trail
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail runs for 11 weeks from 17th June 2019 – 30th August 2019, culminating in a series of Farewell Events and nationwide auctions in each of the five host cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Scotland’s first ever national public art trail aims to unite the country as it raises awareness and vital funds for Scotland’s children’s hospital charities.
No matter who you are or where you live, you can get involved with Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail by:
Exploring the trails in each city with your friends and family
Getting involved with your school and learning all about Oor Wullie and our heritage .
Bidding on a sculpture in our auctions at the end of the trail
Funds raised through the trail will support Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity,Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity,and the ARCHIE Foundation, helping children in hospital across the country.
Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail is a Wild in Art event, and would not be possible without the support of DC Thomson Media.
Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.
It features a character called Wullie Russell[citation needed]. Wullie is the familiar Scots nickname for boys named William.
His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat - most strips since early 1937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket.
The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!").
The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).
Created by Thomson editor R. D. Low and drawn by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip first appeared on 8 March 1936. Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s.
New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon. Ken H. Harrison drew the strip from 1989 until 1997, when Davidson resumed duties. Between January 2005 and 2006 storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division.
The current writer is former Dandy editor Morris Heggie.
Although Wullie's hometown was unnamed in the original Watkins strips, it has been called Auchenshoogle since the late 1990s.
Wullie and his friends roam the streets of his town, though he is sometimes depicted at school which he finds confining. Praise from his teacher, who addresses him as "William", is rare and acutely embarrassing. His adventures often consist of unrealistic get-rich-quick schemes that lead to mischief, to the despair of his parents Ma and Pa (Wullie’s Pa is called “Tam”, the only reference to this is in a strip from the sixties during a conversation between Pa and PC Murdoch) and local policeman P.C. Joe Murdoch. Wullie's gang consists of himself, Fat Bob, Wee Eck (Eng: Little Alex), 'Soapy' Soutar (/ˈsoʊtər/) and Primrose Paterson (an annoying girl who likes Wullie, but who Wullie often does not want to be in the gang, yet manages to be much better than him in various games and activities such as football, racing, climbing trees and firing a catapult). Wullie is the self-proclaimed leader, a position which is frequently disputed by the others. In early strips the gang met in a wooden shed - usually located in the garden at Wullie's house. In later strips the gang meets in a derelict caravan called Holly Rude. He used to have another friend called Ezzy, who has stopped appearing in the strips, along with Wullie's unnamed little brother. He owns a pet mouse named Jeemy and in later strips a pet dog called Harry. In the Ken Harrison strips he gained additional supporting characters, such as the pretty Doris Gow (whom Wullie likes, much to Primrose's rage), her boyfriend, the town bully Basher McKenzie, and grumpy old neighbour Moaning Mildew (modelled on Victor Meldrew from One Foot in the Grave).[citation needed]
Wullie's age has not been consistent, in the early Watkins scripts he looked about 5 or 6, in later Watkins scripts he looked about 10 or 11, more recently he has become slightly younger.
William Ross, Secretary of State for Scotland 1964-70 and 1974–76, was occasionally depicted in political cartoons seated on a bucket as Oor Wullie.
In March 2006, BBC Scotland documentary Happy Birthday Oor Wullie celebrated the strip's 70th and TV show's 28th birthday with celebrity guests including Karen Dunbar, Sanjeev Kohli, Kaye Adams, Iain Robertson, Tony Roper, Tam Cowan, Stuart Cosgrove and Dominik Diamond, and was narrated by Billy Boyd.
When The Topper launched in 1953, Oor Wullie appeared in the masthead, although not as a story in the comic. He often appeared sitting on his bucket, though other poses were used as well.
The pose on Topper no. 1 had him wearing a top hat. He had the top hat in one hand and the other hand pointing at the Topper logo.
Early annuals were undated, so this information is to help identify them. Later annuals had the copyright date inside them.
Annuals
Starting in 1940 the Oor Wullie strips also appeared in the form of a Christmas annual which alternated every second year with “The Broons”, another D. C. Thomson product. (No annuals were published between 1943 and 1946.)
Pre-1966 annuals were undated. Starting in 2015, both titles are now published annually.
A facsimile of the first The Broons annual was released on 25 November 2006 and of the first Oor Wullie annual the following year.
Since 1996 - the 60th anniversary of the strip - D.C. Thomson has also published a series of compilation books featuring The Broons and Oor Wullie on alternate pages.
The early stories are often recycled in current annuals. An example being the “twin cousin” story in the 2018 annual being first seen in the fifties.