About The Owner

Andrew McKelvey the owner of HWV 135X is a 51 year old Electrical Engineer and IT Guru who is presantly looking for a job as he was made redundant from his last employer in Jan 2008. Not some thing Andrew was particularly bothered about but finding a job is a pain.

Andrew was born in Billington Nr Blackburn Lancashire at the age of 0 and at 10 years old was dragged to North West Durham to live in Stanley, where his father worked nearby.

Andrew spent 27 of his formative years in Stanley, becoming an apprentice with the Post Office Telephone's, worked briefly, 8 months, at Beamish Open Air Museum, never actually knowing what he would be doing on a daily basis, he was the electrician but could be roped in to build walls, mix plaster apply paint and drink plenty of brown liquid normally at lunch time's. Biggest personal sense of achievement was re-wiring a Sheffield Tram and actually figuring out the wiring diagram for the controllers at both end's, It did eventually work.

Andrew finding the remuneration at Beamish a tad diminutive joined the then C.E.G.B. in Pity Me Durham as an Electrical Fitter (Telecomms) in 1979 and worked for the said organisation for 26 years until being out sourced to CSC Computer Science Corporation in 2003. Andrew worked his way up through the ranks to become a Telecoms Engineer and eventually swapped disciplines to become the Area's Computing Engineer and eventually Business Systems Officer. It was as Business System's Officer that Andrew relocated due to company reorganisation to Wakefield in Yorkshire where he now lives with his second wife in Ossett.

Andrew has 4 children with his first wife and his second wife has 2 of which he is step father, but thankfully for sanity reasons they don't all reside with him, they all seem to be grown up now and making there own way in the world.

Andrew has since, being little, been interested in things mechanical and electrical and from a young age loved taking old clocks and valve radios to bit's, never managing to get them back together again.

In his early teens Andrew supplemented his paper round money by amassing large quantities of broken bikes etc and turning the various piles of junk into workers which where sold for minimal amount's to friend's. Andrew still has old bicycles in his garage and still has 2 workers, one an old Raleigh racing bike from the mid 70's and a Claude Butler Mountain Bike from the 90's.

Andrew has had more hobbies than hot dinner's and all seem to revolve around making or creating things, Andrew is a avid DIY'er of any thing, no job is too small, large, daunting or complicated and so long as he saves some money is eminently happy. Oh! and he is still learning to play the guitar, some thing he has been doing since the age of 14.

He is the latest owner of HWV 135X , there have been 7 previous owners.