South Yorkshire Times, July 21, 1951

“Dab-Hand” at Crocheting

12-year-old Wath schoolboy, Billie Selwood,  isn’t keen football and doesn’t care for cricket – but he’s a “dab hand” at crochet-work, as was proved at Wath Festival’s “Ladies Day” exhibition on Monday when he was awarded a special prize for a “Queen Anne” design tablecloth which he had crocheted in his spare time. The cloth, which contains 144 motifs, took him only a few months to complete – even though he “did a few mats in between!”

Billie, whose home is at 7, Wharncliffe Avenue, Wath, took up crocheting about two years ago – and a profitable hobby he has found it. “He’s made pounds” his mother commented on Monday “some of which have been spent on a new camera”.

Billie, needless to say, finds his crochet work very useful around Christmas time and birthdays; but right now he is busy making a blouse for his mother.

Not only can he crochet: but he can knit too!  But until now he has made only one garment – a pullover which he wears regularly.

Academically Billie, who was formerly at Park Road School, appears equally talented. A Wath Grammar School scholar, he is this term top of his form and has been awarded a special prize for history. Only son of Mr and Mrs. G. W. Selwood he was formerly a member of the Wath Parish Church Choir.