Oor Wullie

I used to get the Oor Wullie and Broons annuals too (North East). I liked them both but the Broons were always my favourites.

I live in the north east and as a child loved Oor Wullie, and the Broons which I would read at my grandparents' house in the Sunday Post.My grandma would read the Sunday Post from cover to cover.I can just see her now, sitting in her front room, she called it ''The Room'', and only used it on Sundays and also to entertain visitors.Se would always sit by the window, with a big cup of tea and her Sovereign cigarettes, with the Sunday Post on her knee.She would also watch her neighbours go past on their Sunday strolls, she had a nick name for nearly all of them.
My parents never read the Sunday Post.My father called it an excuse for a paper.

Crumbs - it's like a whole new language to me😆

My DH talks fondly of the “Oor Wullie” character now,
it was a part of his childhood he loved, that his Scottish Aunt and Uncle sent him an Annual of him every Christmas.

I remember having the Oor Wullie annuals when I was young - about 60 years ago. Can't remember much about them now though.

I lived in Lancashire and never saw the original newspaper.

I loved the annuals but I don't remember any of my friends being aware of Oor Wullie

I always went round to my granny's to read Oor Wullie and The Broons because my dad refused to take the Sunday Post. Nevertheless, I thrived!

Ds when around 10 managed to fit the words "oor Wullie, Fat Boab, Soapy Soutar and Wee Eck" to any piece of Scot's accordion and fiddle music! Try it-it works!! Oh and for the sustained chord at the end of a piece he added "and his bucket"!

Thus Oor Wullie
Thank you autocorrect -not

DC Thompson, Dundee publish The Sunday Post and this Oor Willie.
They also publish the Beano
A long list of former publications including Jackie

Feelingmyage55

I liked Horace and his spectacles. The Twins were also unnamed.

Not strictly true.
They were called “the ae twin” ( the one twin) and “the ither twin” (the other twin!)
The baby was of course “the bairn”

My Scottish colleague gets an oor wullie diary every year

I don't think Wullie's pal Fat Bob is called that any more and I think he was a bit slimmer, last time I looked.

And both Oor Wullie and The Broone's were fond of saying "Jings!" an awful lot. Ha! Ha!

I always remember Andy Capp and was it Wellington that used to walk around with a cloud over his head? In the Mirror?

I hadn’t heard of it, being from down south but have found a picture.

I liked Horace and his spectacles. The Twins were also unnamed.

Grandmabatty

Oor Wullie had another friend called Fat Boab and one called Wee Eck. His nemesis was PC Murdoch (I think).
The Broons were every alternate year to Oor Wullie. I always saw myself as Maggie who was glamorous, however I suspect I looked more like Daphne.

The policeman was sort of a friend and enemy and would sometimes help Wullie if he got stuck in a tree or something like that. Otherwise Wullie was very wary if he saw PC Murdoch and he was doing something wrong.
The Broons were one huge family with the bairn, who never had a name, being about 2 years old and Hen, the eldest son, being in his early twenties.

Oor Wullie had another friend called Fat Boab and one called Wee Eck. His nemesis was PC Murdoch (I think).
The Broons were every alternate year to Oor Wullie. I always saw myself as Maggie who was glamorous, however I suspect I looked more like Daphne.

DC Thomson used to alternate between Oor Wullie and The Broons each year. I had six of these annuals and wonder where they got to. Always wondered how The Broons managed to get on so well most of the time as there was 8 of them in a tenement.

It used to be a tradition that we got an Oor Wullie annual at Christmas.

I can remember Wullie having a pet mouse called Jeemy and his best friend being called Soapy Soutar. Always made me laugh and the comic strip entertained millions in Scotland anf the North over the years.
One thing they probably wouldn't allow in Oor Wullie now would be Wullie getting the slipper from his Maw and Paw, and the teachers often used the belt.

Jings crivvens an help ma boab!

I've read through an annual, I think it was.

NittWitt

An upside down metal bucket, not a dustbin. 🙂

Sorry a bucket turned upside down.

An upside down metal bucket, not a dustbin. 🙂