Sutcliffe's father, Charles Sutcliffe (1905 – 18 March 1966), was a senior civil servant, who moved to Liverpool to help with wartime work in 1943, and then signed on as a ship's engineer, and so was often at sea during his son's early years. His mother, Millie, was a schoolteacher at an infant's school.2 Sutcliffe had two younger sisters, Pauline and Joyce.34
Sutcliffe was born at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, and after his family moved south,5 he was brought up at 37 Aigburth Drive in Liverpool.6 He attended Park View Primary School, Huyton (1946–1950),...
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