This post shares a timeline, of course terribly incomplete, of Herbert Parkin, a ‘street musician’ familiar to Edinburgh in the 1920s:
1901 census, 44 Edburton Avenue, Brighton: The Parkin family:
19 December 1903, Brighton Gazette:
7 January 1904, Brighton Gazette:
8 April 1920, Edinburgh Evening Dispatch:
8 January 1925, Edinburgh Evening News:
1939, Brighton Mental Hospital:
3 January 1949, Edinburgh Evening News:
4 January 1949, Edinburgh Evening News:

