But it had all started both in terms of birth and the game in Livingston. Walker had been born in 1915 on its Main Street, his father from Airdrie and a Foreman in an Oil-Works, presumably Shale-oil, his mother from Bathgate. And his first football club would be Livingston Violet, before Broxburn Rangers, Linlithgow Rose and then the final club step-up to Edinburgh. And it there he would remain but for serving in the Army in the Signals Regiment for the duration of the War and those couple of seasons in West London. In 1937 he was married there to local girl, Jane Symington. Th eywould have one son, also called Tommy. And it would be there too that Tommy Senior would in 1993 pass away in a Haymarket hospice aged seventy-seven, to be cremated at Warriston Cemetery and survived by his wife for fifteen years. Jane would die in 2008 still in the city and in her ninety-sixth year.