Table of Contents

Foreword Chapter 1 Origins 2 Finding My Feet 3 The Firefly 4 Diglis Basin 5 The New Idea 6 Oil Crisis 7 Playing Poker 8 Union Power 9 New Horizons 10 Ashes 11 Phoenix 12 Securing The Future 13 Life With Bosch 14 Rugby 15 Whistleblower 16 In The Scrum 17 Relegation 18 Looking Ahead Acknowledgements Index

About the Author

Self-made millionaire Cecil Duckworth was born in Macclesfield in 1937 but has lived in Worcester for over 50 years. In 1962 he started his own engineering company, Worcester Heat Systems, manufacturing domestic central heating boilers. In 1970 he introduced the first combi boiler which resulted in the company's rapid expansion to market leader. Going public in 1986, he then sold the company to Bosch in 1996. Since retiring he has taken Worcester Rugby Club into the Premiership, set up the Duckworth Worcestershire Trust with a view to making the City of Worcester a more attractive, cleaner and safer place to live, and led a number of other local community based projects. He was awarded the OBE in 2005 for services to sport and the environment in Worcestershire and made a Freeman of the City of Worcester in 2008.