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Full name | Kenneth Parkinson [1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 21 September 1911||
Place of birth | Neville's Cross, England | ||
Date of death | 1987 (aged 75) | ||
Place of death | Darlington, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (1.79 m) [3] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
19??–1933 | Esh Winning | ||
1933–1935 | Sheffield Wednesday | 0 | (0) |
1935–1936 | Shrewsbury Town | ||
1936–1939 | Darlington | 87 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Kenneth Parkinson (21 September 1911 – 1987) was an English footballer who made 87 appearances in the Football League playing as a goalkeeper for Darlington in the 1930s. He was on the books of Sheffield Wednesday, without playing for the club's first team, and also played non-league football for Esh Winning and Shrewsbury Town. [1]
Parkinson was born in 1911 in Neville's Cross, County Durham, [4] [5] the son of Walter Parkinson, a cokeman, and his wife, Eliza. [6] He played football for Esh Winning of the Northern League, and was a member of the Durham Amateur XI that faced a North-Eastern League selection in April 1933 as part of the Durham FA's jubilee celebrations. [7]
After trials with their reserve team towards the end of the 1932–33 season, Parkinson signed professional forms with Football League First Division club Sheffield Wednesday. [8] He played regularly in the reserves, and was retained for the 1934–35 season, [9] but got no closer to the first team, and was listed for transfer at a fee of £100. [10] [4] Described as "a goalkeeper of whom much is expected", Parkinson joined Shrewsbury Town for the 1935–36 season, [11] during which he made 40 appearances and helped them finish third in the Birmingham League. [4]
He then signed for Football League Third Division North club Darlington, whose regular goalkeeper, Harry Walker, was recovering from a knee cartilage operation. [4] He began the season in the first team, and kept his place even after Walker returned to fitness, but a bout of influenza at the turn of the year gave Walker his opening. [12] After a run of five defeats that left Darlington bottom of the table, Parkinson returned, [13] but there was little improvement, and they shared the role until the end of the season. [14] The club's application for re-election was successful, and both goalkeepers were among just six players retained. [15]
Parkinson began the 1937–38 season in possession, but a broken bone in his wrist let Walker back in, [16] and his performances earned him a £1000 transfer to First Division Portsmouth. [17] Parkinson kept goal for the last couple of months of Darlington's season, [18] and for most of the next. He was left out in December to give Frank Gower his Football League debut, [19] but after a 4–0 loss to Southport, Parkinson returned to the team at the end of January and remained in it. [20] [21] Along with most of Darlington's contracted players, he was given a free transfer at the end of the season. [22]
The 1939 Register finds Parkinson working as an annealing furnaceman in a steel foundry and living in Darlington with his wife, Maria Annie née Vest, whom he married in 1936, [23] and their baby son, Walter. [24] He died in Darlington in 1987 at the age of 75. [2] [25]
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Kenneth Parkinson [1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 21 September 1911||
Place of birth | Neville's Cross, England | ||
Date of death | 1987 (aged 75) | ||
Place of death | Darlington, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (1.79 m) [3] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
19??–1933 | Esh Winning | ||
1933–1935 | Sheffield Wednesday | 0 | (0) |
1935–1936 | Shrewsbury Town | ||
1936–1939 | Darlington | 87 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Kenneth Parkinson (21 September 1911 – 1987) was an English footballer who made 87 appearances in the Football League playing as a goalkeeper for Darlington in the 1930s. He was on the books of Sheffield Wednesday, without playing for the club's first team, and also played non-league football for Esh Winning and Shrewsbury Town. [1]
Parkinson was born in 1911 in Neville's Cross, County Durham, [4] [5] the son of Walter Parkinson, a cokeman, and his wife, Eliza. [6] He played football for Esh Winning of the Northern League, and was a member of the Durham Amateur XI that faced a North-Eastern League selection in April 1933 as part of the Durham FA's jubilee celebrations. [7]
After trials with their reserve team towards the end of the 1932–33 season, Parkinson signed professional forms with Football League First Division club Sheffield Wednesday. [8] He played regularly in the reserves, and was retained for the 1934–35 season, [9] but got no closer to the first team, and was listed for transfer at a fee of £100. [10] [4] Described as "a goalkeeper of whom much is expected", Parkinson joined Shrewsbury Town for the 1935–36 season, [11] during which he made 40 appearances and helped them finish third in the Birmingham League. [4]
He then signed for Football League Third Division North club Darlington, whose regular goalkeeper, Harry Walker, was recovering from a knee cartilage operation. [4] He began the season in the first team, and kept his place even after Walker returned to fitness, but a bout of influenza at the turn of the year gave Walker his opening. [12] After a run of five defeats that left Darlington bottom of the table, Parkinson returned, [13] but there was little improvement, and they shared the role until the end of the season. [14] The club's application for re-election was successful, and both goalkeepers were among just six players retained. [15]
Parkinson began the 1937–38 season in possession, but a broken bone in his wrist let Walker back in, [16] and his performances earned him a £1000 transfer to First Division Portsmouth. [17] Parkinson kept goal for the last couple of months of Darlington's season, [18] and for most of the next. He was left out in December to give Frank Gower his Football League debut, [19] but after a 4–0 loss to Southport, Parkinson returned to the team at the end of January and remained in it. [20] [21] Along with most of Darlington's contracted players, he was given a free transfer at the end of the season. [22]
The 1939 Register finds Parkinson working as an annealing furnaceman in a steel foundry and living in Darlington with his wife, Maria Annie née Vest, whom he married in 1936, [23] and their baby son, Walter. [24] He died in Darlington in 1987 at the age of 75. [2] [25]
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