Kevin Machell was born and grew up among the many slums and terraced streets of immediate post war Salford in industrial Lancashire. He failed the 11 plus exam and attended a secondary modern school leaving with only a certificate of academic competence. The prevailing educational system denied him the opportunity of sitting any GCE examinations.
He began work as a laboratory assistant and attended colleges of further education on a day release basis where he gained four GCE O levels. In his early twenties he started working in the chemical producing industry and spent the rest of his working life at the same company. Beginning as a chemical plant operator he quickly progressed up the career ladder through quality control and ultimately to a senior position of shift production manager, a position he held for over twenty years.
At the age of fifty, at the behest of and completely sponsored by his company, Kevin enrolled at Salford University and over the next three years was to gain two post graduate degrees in management study and application. He was appointed to the Magistracy in 2000 and continues to dispense justice in the Manchester and Salford Magistrates Courts.
Throughout his life he has always been very actively involved in supporting and helping his local community. He has been involved in fund raising for his local schools and churches and is a voluntary helper at his local hospice. He took early retirement from business at the age of fifty-eight after thirty-eight years with the company. Concentrating now on combining his Magisterial duties with his favourite pastimes of cruising the World`s oceans and his love of genealogy, he has written his first book.
Typically of Kevin, he has chosen to write about something he is an absolute authority on, the very unique and complicated story of his own background and complex relationship with his errant parents. He has never been one to pull his punches, he is not afraid to tell a story as it really is – warts and all. He has a well earned reputation of being an extremely good presenter and story teller.
