Frailers couldn't be more tucked away, but it is a favourite of Billy Connolly, who has visited more than six times over the ...

Born in a poor tenement block, Connolly was abandoned ... in his 2001 biography Billy. As a teenager, he joined the Clyde shipyards, where he served his apprenticeship as a welder. While working there ...

From his days as a welder in the Glaswegian shipyard, Billy Connolly was also a banjo player in the folk music band The Humblebums and found the jokes he told between songs went down well, and ...