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  • Riding a camel
  • Hat
  • National Service
  • Playing Golf
  • The Parkinsons
  • Phone Call
  • I wanted to play cricket like Len Hutton and write like Neville Cardus. I failed but it was fun trying.
  • Taken shortly after I was voted Best Dressed Man on Radio 2
  • With my mum, Freda: The engine of my ambition.
  • My first visit to my second home.
  • One of my favourite photos of Mary, my wife.
  • My parents: John William Parkinson, beloved father, with Freda Rose Parkinson, a mettlesome woman.
  • Mary, my wife
  • We played together as teenagers in Barnsley. I dreamed of playing for Yorkshire, Geoff Boycott was certain he would – and England, too.
  • Poshed up at Bridlington with Mum, uncles, aunts and cousins. The pretty girl behind me gave me my first kiss.
  • Me with my parents: Preparing the wicket for beach cricket. Scarborough 1938
  • Junior school Victor Ludorum aged ten. I was a runner not a fighter.
  • Me with my father: About to open the innings with my captain.
  • Family holiday at Butlins with neighbours. Granny Binns and her husband, Fred, are on my left.
  • Me in my droopy teenager phase, with Mum, her sister Madge and her children. The child on my lap now weighs 190lbs.
  • Teenage hooligans at Filey. Note the hair, first manifestation of my Robert Mitchum phase.
  • A cricket team assembled and captained by my father to take on all corners.
  • Basic training in Wiltshire. My trousers were last worn by Ronnie Corbett.
  • Private Parkinson
  • (L-R - Nick, Mary, Freda, Jack, Michael (Jr), Michael, Andy) Happy families in the days when young men wore neckwear to match the curtains.
  • (L-R – Nick, Andy, Mary, Michael, Michael (Jr)) Back from holiday in America. The hat reveals why I almost never wear them.

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Teenage hooligans at Filey. Note the hair, first manifestation of my Robert Mitchum phase.

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  • Riding a camel
  • Hat
  • National Service
  • Playing Golf
  • The Parkinsons
  • Phone Call
  • I wanted to play cricket like Len Hutton and write like Neville Cardus. I failed but it was fun trying.
  • Taken shortly after I was voted Best Dressed Man on Radio 2
  • With my mum, Freda: The engine of my ambition.
  • My first visit to my second home.
  • One of my favourite photos of Mary, my wife.
  • My parents: John William Parkinson, beloved father, with Freda Rose Parkinson, a mettlesome woman.
  • Mary, my wife
  • We played together as teenagers in Barnsley. I dreamed of playing for Yorkshire, Geoff Boycott was certain he would – and England, too.
  • Poshed up at Bridlington with Mum, uncles, aunts and cousins. The pretty girl behind me gave me my first kiss.
  • Me with my parents: Preparing the wicket for beach cricket. Scarborough 1938
  • Junior school Victor Ludorum aged ten. I was a runner not a fighter.
  • Me with my father: About to open the innings with my captain.
  • Family holiday at Butlins with neighbours. Granny Binns and her husband, Fred, are on my left.
  • Me in my droopy teenager phase, with Mum, her sister Madge and her children. The child on my lap now weighs 190lbs.
  • Teenage hooligans at Filey. Note the hair, first manifestation of my Robert Mitchum phase.
  • A cricket team assembled and captained by my father to take on all corners.
  • Basic training in Wiltshire. My trousers were last worn by Ronnie Corbett.
  • Private Parkinson
  • (L-R - Nick, Mary, Freda, Jack, Michael (Jr), Michael, Andy) Happy families in the days when young men wore neckwear to match the curtains.
  • (L-R – Nick, Andy, Mary, Michael, Michael (Jr)) Back from holiday in America. The hat reveals why I almost never wear them.



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