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| Alan McEwen
Alan is an enthusiastic researcher, writer and photographer of industrial history which has fascinated him from being a youngster. When he was just 14 years old, Alan researched and produced a small booklet titled,
'THE HOPWOOD COLLIERY WAGGONWAY"
Regrettably it has been out of print for over 40 years.
In 1977 he researched, wrote and published,
"COLLECTING QUACK CURES" , and in 1998 wrote "CHRONICLES OF A LANCASTRIAN BOILERMAKER",
his autobiography relating his passionate story of how, after serving an apprenticeship as a boilermaker, he became Managing Director and Chief Engineer of nationally renowned industrial and heritage boiler engineers,
H.A McEwen (BOILER REPAIRS) Limited, the family firm that he had founded in 1968. Alan retired from the company in November 2007, handing over the reins of the firm that was his life for almost four decades, to his son Alasdair. He still acts as consulting engineer to his old firm when required.
Alan has also written numerous articles for magazines and books about British Industrial Heritage: he has been a member of the Newcomen Society for over 25 years and the Northern Mill Engine Society for around 20 years. He is currently in the throes of researching and writing another book to be titled:
"LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE MILLTOWN DISASTERS'.
To be published by Sledgehammer Engineering Press Ltd,
late 2009
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