Lives in Cricket No 29 - AN Hornby

108 Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following people, without whom this book would not have been possible: Stephen Williams for undertaking an enormous amount of the research, mainly through his own superb cricketing library, and for reading the first draft; ACS members David Jeater, who was a great source of encouragement; David Pracy, who did a truly marvellous job as my editor, was never short of constructive ideas and comments, and has made the book a much better read than it otherwise would have been; Martin Tebay of Red Rose Books; Malcolm Lorimer, the Lancashire chaplain and archivist; Peter Wall, whose unpublished work on Hornby is truly a labour of love; the late Don Ambrose; Keith Hayhurst; Georgina Hoole; Philip Paine; Tony Martin; Pat Jeater; Eric Greenwood, East Lancashire CC club historian and statistician; Chris Punchard of Maldon CC and Steven Sheen. The images on pages 17-26 and page 101 are © Blackburn with Darwen Library and Information Services and taken from their website at www.cottontown.org The images on pages 5, 31, 56, 77, 84 and 86 are from the Roger Mann Collection and those on pages 4, 42, 49, 69, 70, 73 and 79 from Lancashire County Cricket Club. I am grateful to everyone who has kindly given permission to reproduce images and particularly to the above three. Dedication Last, but by no means least, a special word of thanks to my wife Bella, who put up with my long hours hogging the computer, both early in the morning and late at night. I would like, therefore, to dedicate this book to her and our four cricket-loving children, Alex, Oscar, Edgar and Edward. Edgware, London January 2013