David Rowe worked for a systems engineering company until his retirement in 2010. He now devotes his time to local history projects. As well as his role as as treasurer and archivist of Mold & District Civic Society, he is now a council member of Flintshire Historical Society. Over the past four years he has lectured extensively on a variety of local history subjects, developed and conducted a series of town trails (including published guides) and provided the research for the S4C television program related to Mold, Y Dref Cymreig . He lives in Mold, Flintshire, and has written two previous books on the area for The History Press.