Dr. William Rollinson MA FRGS  achieved well earned success through the medium of his lectures, books and television films. But the man who could read you the telephone directory and make it sound interesting, was self denigrating to a fault; at heart he was a Barrow boy - the lad from Hindpool  -  ‘Our Bill.’

Films

Dr. W. Rollinson was adviser for the following films: -
‘Land of the Lakes’
‘Land of Man’
‘Land of the Western Borders’
‘Land of the Eastern Borders’
fronted by Melvyn Bragg ‘A Wall Walks Slowly’
All that Messuage’
‘Straight from the Wood’
‘Enid Wilson - Lakeland Guardian’

Dr. W. Rollinson was presenter for the following films:-

“Natural Resources”
‘A Tale of Two Dales”

Books by William Rollinson

“Lost Villages and Hamlets of Low Furness”
“A History of Man in the Lake District” - 1967
“Lakeland Walls” - 1969
“A History of Cumberland and Westmorland” - 1978
“Life and Tradition in the Lake District” - 1981
“The Diary of William Fisher of Barrow 1811 to 1859”
             edited by William Rollinson and Brett Harrison - 1986
“The Lake Counties by W.G. Collingwood” (new edition edited by W. Rollinson) -1988
“The Lake District - Landscape Heritage” W. Rollinson et al. 1989.
“The Cumbrian Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition & Folklore” - 1997
“Making Charcoal” - 1998
“Making Swill Baskets” - 1998
“Making Dry Stone Walls” - 1998
“William Gell’s Tour of Lakes, 1797” - 2000