Frank Parr obituary

To some, my stepfather, Frank Parr, was a jazzman who also played cricket. To others, he was a cricketer who also played jazz. The truth is, Frank, who has died aged 83, was hugely talented at both. Antony Davis, his friend from Wallasey grammar school-days, remembers that Frank used to sit on a windowsill, "puffing merrily on a cigarette – this lordly figure of an athlete, hero of many small boys, already earmarked for Lancashire Cricket Club and a good trombone player in the embryonic Mersey...

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