Party: Conservative
Ward: Chilwell West
Other councillors representing this Ward:
Home address:
4 Penrhyn Crescent
Chilwell
Beeston
Nottingham
NG9 5NZ
Phone: 0115 9677260
Email: eileen.atherton@broxtowe.gov.uk
Bus. email: eileen.atherton@broxtowe.gov.uk
Born in
St. Ann's Nottingham at the end of 1944, Eileen has lived all her
life in Nottinghamshire.
At the age of seven her life became commensurate with business
affairs when her mother and father moved into an off licence and she well remembers delivering groceries
at a very early age to her parents customers.
After leaving Sycamore Girls School at the age of 16, having stayed
on an extra year to take an RSA Commercial Course run at the
school, Eileen began her working career as an Office Junior and
subsequently Secretary to a Senior Partner at a firm of Nottingham
solicitors.
In 1961, Eileen was introduced by a cousin of her father's to the
Conservative Party and she has been an active member ever since and
indeed Eileen and Mick were the youngest Young Conservatives to get
married in the area when, in 1965, Eileen married Mick
Atherton. By this time Eileen was Secretary of the Radford
& Manvers YC Branch and Mick was
the Chairman.
They started their married life living in Attenborough and at the
end of 1966 Eileen left work to have her first daughter,
Helen.
By the end of 1968, Eileen and Mick had moved in an off
license at Central Avenue, Beeston which they kept for 34 years
during which time Eileen had her second daughter, Carole. Sadly
Mick died in 2012 after a long illness.
Eileen is now the proud grandmother to four grandsons.
Her hobbies include being a School Governor, genealogy, watching
tennis, reading, gardening and she is an ardent fan of the computer
as a means of quick communication and information.