Dr Joseph Parker Allinson (known as Joe) was born in Skinningrove 17th December 1907. He was the eldest of 3 brothers and lived as a child in New Company Row Skinningrove. He was a graduate of Sheffield University where he gained a PhD in Fuel Technology in 1937. He spent his working life in the oil industry, much of the time abroad managing oil refineries in Abadan and Aden, retiring from BP in the 1960s before finishing his working career as Secretary of the Institute of Petroleum in London. While at Sheffield he met Annie Holliday from Huddersfield. They were married in 1937 and had homes in Huddersfield and Marske-by-the-Sea before moving to Sutton south of London in the early1950s. Their 3 children grew up in Marske and Sutton. I don't know much about his footballing career other than that he played as a young man for Whitby United. Later in life he was an enthusiastic and low handicap golfer.
