George, the second son of John William and Florence was born on 12th January 1916 at 57 Gill Street, Hoyland and christened at The John Knowles Memorial Church, Hoyland Nether on 27th February 1916.
He had an older sister Edith Annie (Nance) born on 30th
December 1910 and also an older brother John William born 9th January 1913
In the autumn of 1917 his younger brother Cyril was born.
George attended King Street School in Elsecar and then Barnsley Mining and Technical College from 1934 to 1936 and obtained his National Certificate in Building Construction, Building Science, Building Geometry and Mathematics, which he took at Wombwell King's Road Evening Institute.
On 24th December 1939, whilst living at 43 Cobcar Street, Elsecar, he married Rose HEDGES of 28 Windmill Road Wombwell at Wombwell Parish Church.The couple moved to Luton, Beds, where George worked as an Engineers' Draughtsman with George Kent, designing such items as the 'Kent Clear View Screen' used on virtually every British ship during the war. He became a member of the 'Home Guard' during the 1939-45 War.
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George and Rose were living at at 'Edenhurst', Dagnall
Road, Studham R.D, when in 1945, their son,
Martin Howard
BUCKLEY was born.
Their first daughter, Bernice Rose
BUCKLEY, was born
in1949,
By 1950, George was working for Laporte Chemicals, Luton and when the
company opened a new factory in Warrington, the family moved north and
lived at 1 Baronet Road, Lower Walton, Warrington.
In 1953 George was awarded the Intermediate Certificate
in Management Studies at Warrington Technical College and two years later he
gained the Diploma in Management Studies at City of Liverpool College of
Commerce. of which he said " The best thing it did was to teach me the quickest
route to Liverpool" T this time he was working as power supply
manager for the Laporte Chemicals plant.
In 1955 their second daughter
Alison Lindsay BUCKLEY was born at Warrington General Hospital.
In the late 1950's he designed and built a sailing dinghy in partnership with
Eric Johnson, the postmaster at Preston Brook Post Office. He took an
active part in his children's education; building exercise frames for Daresbury
Primary School, and installing a radio system for use in any of the classrooms.
He helped with both cub and scout activities and was instrumental in installing
the power supply when a new scout hut was built. At home he built several
'collapsible' canoes for family use on the Bridgewater canal.
George retired from work in the 1970's and moved to live in Worceter. As
Georges's health deteriorated they moved to Stanion to live near their younger
daughter Alison and on 16th July 1989, George died in Kettering Hospital
