John ColeI was brought up in Newport, south Wales and studied history at Aberystwyth and Manchester Metropolitan Universities. I managed libraries in Newport before moving to Rochdale, Greater Manchester where I ran the local archives service. I was responsible for cultural services and tourism in Rochdale when the new lottery funded museum and art gallery opened in 2001. I have written several books on local and social history including Conflict and Co-operation, Down Poorhouse Lane and Suspicions Deaths in Rochdale (!). I produced a number of historically orientated films and videos before relocating with my wife Sue to Anglesey. I have since been involved in community archives and joined Menai Bridge Community Heritage Trust in 2015. My interests include historical research, walking, jazz and American comic books.
Kerry is a Chartered Engineer and winner of the Karen Burt Memorial Award in 2024. She is a Fellow of WES and the IHE, and CIHT. Kerry served as the Regional Representative to Council for the CIHT Cymru Wales region from 2018 to 2024. Kerry is the Chair of the Trustee’s of the Menai Bridge’s Museum which celebrates the industrial heritage and engineering principles of the two 
Menai Bridges.
I am a chartered civil engineer with a degree in Civil Engineering, originally from Pen Llŷn but living in Bangor for the past 34 years. My background is mainly in the water industry but I have also worked on highways and structures. I worked for nearly 40 years on schemes in England and Scotland but mainly in North Wales and since retiring, my life is busy with grandfather duties and other voluntary work. I joined Menai Heritage as a volunteer and then a trustee since I am a great admirer of engineers like Telford and Stephenson and the innovative work they carried out in an era without the technological advantages we have today. I am also keen to share the awareness of the heritage that we are so fortunate to be part of in the area we live in.
Bob Borsley
I was born and raised in Warwickshire. I did my first degree in Bangor, and then a PhD in Edinburgh. After jobs in various places, including Poznań (Poland), London, and Dublin, I returned to Bangor as a lecturer in 1986. In 2000, I moved to a post in Essex. Eventually I retired, and returned to Ynys Môn in 2019. My field is Theoretical Linguistics, and I have published books and papers on the grammar of English and Welsh, and on other languages, including Polish, Breton, and Arabic. (I can only speak the first of these languages.) I was an editor of Journal of Linguistics, the main British linguistics journal, from 1994 to 2016. Apart from language (especially grammar), my interests include history and cricket.
My background is in theatre and film as a Stage Manager and Director and later as a Community Liaison Officer with Stonewall Cymru. My goal is the development of our Museum into an engaging experience that stimulates a desire to find solutions to engineering puzzles.
