Editing Nick Park (section)

== Early life ==
Nicholas Wulstan Park was born on 6 December 1958 in [[Preston, Lancashire]], to [[seamstress]] Mary Cecilia (''[[née]]'' Ashton; born 1930) and Roger Wulstan Park (1925–2004), an architectural photographer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nick Park|url=http://www.biography.com/people/nick-park-40089|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=12 October 2015|archive-date=19 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019133747/http://www.biography.com/people/nick-park-40089|url-status=dead}}</ref> The middle child of five siblings, he grew up in [[Penwortham]]; the family later moved to [[Walmer Bridge]]. His sister Janet lives in [[Longton, Lancashire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/98/Nick-Park.html|title=Nick Park Biography (1958-)|website=filmreference.com}}</ref> He attended Cuthbert Mayne High School (now [[Our Lady's Catholic High School, Fulwood|Our Lady's Catholic High School]]).

Park grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons, and as a 13-year-old, he made films with the help of his mother, her home film camera and cotton [[bobbin]]s. He also took after his father, an amateur inventor, and would submit to ''[[Blue Peter]]'' homemade items such as a bottle that squeezed out different coloured wools.<ref name=telegraph/>

He studied Communication Arts at Sheffield City Polytechnic (now [[Sheffield Hallam University]]) and then went to the [[National Film and Television School]], where he started making the first [[Wallace and Gromit]] film, ''[[A Grand Day Out]]''.