Bert Parnaby
James Bertram "Bert" Parnaby (4 March 1924 – 30 July 1992)
Whilst living in Didsbury, Bert was a schoolmaster at Manchester Grammar School during the 1950s and early 1960s. Teaching English, he was greatly involved in the production of teachers’ plays. He subsequently became an HMI (one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools).
On leaving the education profession, Parnaby worked as a producer and performer for the BBC. His monologues on breakfast radio often started ‘I hate …’, for example the edition about the Post Office, which was based on the Didsbury branch, albeit unnamed.
Parnaby died in July 1992 at the age of 68, shortly after the death of his wife Jane. A bench in their memory was later erected in Drummer Street, Cambridge.[2]
References
- ^ "Equity". Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ "OpenBenches - by @edent & @summerbeth".
External links
- Bert Parnaby at IMDb
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