User:Kevin Ballard Leicester

Born on Audust the 1st 1967 son of Janet Love in Leicester Royal Infirmary. I was adopted by Derek and Kathleen Ballard about 3 to 6 months from birth. I suppose it was a normal upbringing by my parents, my adopted sister would have her chrismas presents one side of the room and I would have mine on the other. One of the things I mostly remember was, as I got older the presents got less and less. My father was a TV repair man and remember he gave my junior school a black and white TV. Then as time moved on a color TV, the first in our school. I don't really remember much as I was growing up, I felt I did not learn alot at school. One of my memerable teachers was Mr Simpkin and still pass his house many times. Our family would go on holiday to skegness each year in july to Chapel St Leonards by train. One year my uncle Alf Law, stuck his head out the train window at speed, but then later had to go hospital as he got some dirt in his eye, he had a patch on all two weeks we where there. I left school at the age of 16 and got a job working for Rockwool roof insulation company. I survived one day and never went back. At the age of 17 I passed my driving test and my mother and father got me a car from an auction place for £100 in them days wqas alot. The car was an Hillman hunter 1725 with twin carbs, it was a right banger. I got a job by a best friend working for a company called Fosterdown LTD on st nicholas circle as a van driver, and many times I would end up putting my money in the van to do deliveries and not getting it back. After a short period I got the sack, then got a job working in wigston for Milton (leic) LTD. I made some very good friends Ray Smith, Alan Turner, Mavis and Helen, and Mr Jim Milton to this date I still see them now and then. I moved on the a company next door called Printers Supplies and Equipment, again made some good friends and looking back where very good times