Just to revisit the topic two years later, there is now an associated blog post that can be found here: Bouncing Billy Barker

There are a few comments from locals and family members.

The domain billybarker.co.uk, the blog post and the other stuff on our sites relating to Billy all stemmed from Mudcat here - so thank you to all the participants once again.

Anything else anyone knows about Billy, please make contact through the blog.