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In 1974 a group of new age travellers were encamped near Stonehenge, and to help hinder the process of eviction by the landowners, all gave their name as Wally of Wessex, [5] "Wally being a conveniently anonymous umbrella for vulnerable individuals".
It was created by a British guy and the original one was called Wally, so it's you USians that have the edited version.
Aug 3, 2009 · And, shockingly enough, Waldo was actually Wally first "“ and he's British. Wally was the brainchild of Martin Handford, an illustrator born in the Greater London neighborhood of...
The Wallies of Wessex were a group of people who squatted on ground close to Stonehenge in 1974. The Department of the Environment and the National Trust landowners started court proceedings to have the squatters evicted.
Nov 7, 2014 · In France he’s called Charlie. In Norway, he’s Willy. Germany? Walter. And in Britain, the home of the illustrator Martin Hanford and the original books, he’s called Wally.
When Handford first designed his leading man, he named him Wally - a shortened formed of Walter or Wallace but commonly used in Britain as a slang term for a somewhat spacey person.
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