Billy Scarrow
Redcar Entertainer
  
Site by Neil Scarrow
 
Billy Scarrow Redcar Pierrot Home Page
Billy Scarrow Redcar Pierrot Childhood Years
Billy Scarrow Redcar Pierrot war service and ENSA
Billy Scarrow Redcar Pierrot Touring the UK and Ireland
Billy Scarrow Redcar Pierrot 1926-39
Billy Scarrow Redcar Pierrot Work after WW2 until 1960
Billy Scarrow Redcar Pierrot Gallery of Pictures
Billy Scarrow Redcar Pierrot Gallery of Pictures
Grangetown History
Middlesbrough History
North Ormesby History
Redcar History
Scarrows of Cumberland website
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Introduction
Billy Scarrow, my grandfather, was a well known entertainer based in Redcar from the period 1926-1939. He is known particularly for his work as a pierrot. This site is about his life and work.
Billy was born in Grangetown, Eston, but moved to Redcar during his childhood. In his teens he was a member of the Redcar Choir, before being enlisted to fight in the Great War. After the war, Billy toured all over the UK before settling down in Redcar in the late 1920s, where he married and had a son. The Pierrot shows for which he is known, continued every season until the outbreak of war again in 1939. During WW2 he worked for ENSA as an entertainer and manager. After the war he continued to entertain, doing circuit of working mens clubs. Billy died in 1960, and is buried in Redcar.
 

If anyone has any images of, or stories about him, please contact me.

Sept 2008: Some new images of Billy Scarrow and the Optimists courtesy of Carol and Peter Morgan. Also some Scarrow genealogy has been added to the childhood page.

June 2009: New pages added about Grangetown, Middlesbrough, North Ormesby and Redcar.