COAL, CHOCOLATE AND CHIPS by Aileen Watson

AB THE BOOK -

The book spans three generations of the author's family.

The story begins in the 1930's in the Derbyshire mining village of
Pinxton where her father, Ron Watson, a miner's son, met and married Milly Marshall, the local policeman’s daughter.

Towards the end of the Second World War, the young family moved to
Ripley to keep a sweet-shop and later, after a family bereavement, ran a chip-shop in the same town - hence the title of the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR -

The author, her husband, John, and their daughter, Linda Jane, live in
Beeston, near Nottingham.

Aileen left Ilkeston Grammar School in 1960 and worked for several years as a laboratory technician; at Boots in Beeston and at Hallcroft School in Ilkeston.

She later returned to full-time study and graduated with honours degree in Economics from Trent Polytechnic in 1977.

For the next two years Aileen was a part-time lecturer and research
assistant in the Economic History Department at Nottingham Univer-
sity.

After a long career break to bring up her daughter, she is now a Personal Assistant to a local accountant.

A5. Wire bound.

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