Retirement
On retirement, he was paid a sum of £1000, as well as a silver tea and coffee service from Middlesbrough chairman Philip Bach. Williamson continued to keep goal for a works team, however. Not interested in watching football, he spent his free time playing golf and taking his sporting gun to Teesmouth.
He died on 1 August 1943 at North Ormesby Hospital following an operation, and is buried in Coatham Churchyard.
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