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My Grandad Jim
A Memory of Coalville.
My name is Kerry & my favourite memory of Coalville when I was younger is my Grandad, his name was Jim Watts. He was a coal miner for quite a few years & he was also Mayor of Coalville. I remember going to the dog track with my dad, Alan & having to wait around for my grandad to come out. If I remember right, after there he would go to the Halfway House & 'just wet his lips' before he went home. I would have been about 9 or 10 years old at the time. I'm 38 now. I never thought I would hear myself say ' I can remember when all this was fields', I definitely can hear myself saying it now. I live in Leicester now but still have ties to Coalville so go back to the place as often as I can. Every time I visit it seems to lose more of its history as well as its landscapes. Thats a great shame to a friendly little town that was a peaceful place but now its a concrete eye-sore that some people would call a business park. My sister (Tracy) & her family still live in Coalville.
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