During his lifetime William (Bill) Hutchinson always had a fascination for Scarecrows! He lived in Scarborough, North Yorkshire (above) for many years and took up writing poetry at least 60 years ago. Sadly, he died in 2015. Whilst he wrote about many topics and his widow Margaret still has over 1000 of the poems he wrote, a good number of them feature Scarecrows. The poems in this book are a very small selection and the book has been published, in his memory, by Margaret who still lives in Scarborough. Bill was born in 1927 in a small mining village a few miles from Doncaster and he and Margaret married and moved to Scarborough in 1955. During his working years he had various occupations but during his free time he got out his notepad and pencil and penned new poems - a selection of his Scarecrow poems are published in this book.