From the cotton mills of post-war Lancashire, to the early days of British computing, Cyril Buckley belonged to a generation trained to rebuild, to design, and to make things work at scale.
His son would follow a parallel path, through instrumentation and the oil platforms of the North Sea, into the global world of enterprise IT, witnessing technology evolve from room-sized machines to the devices we carry in our pockets.
Set against the landscape of Saddleworth and the moors above it, this memoir traces more than a career. It is a story of continuity - of education, work and a way of thinking passed quietly from one generation to the next.
From mainframes to mobile phones, from mills to datacentres, it captures the full arc of modern engineering through the lived experience of one family
