After Playing
Billy Houliston first went into the licensing trade in 1949 when opening Billy's Bar on Dumfries High Street. Houliston continued in this business until the 1980s with the Nith Hotel at Glencaple.
Houliston became a director at Queen of the South in 1957 and was later chairman for several years winning promotion to the first division in with the early 1960s Queens team of player manager George Farm, Neil Martin, Ernie Hannigan and the now veteran Jim Patterson.
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