Lives in Cricket No 48 - Maurice Leyland

155 Against the odds to help out at weekends. Emma, widowed in 1943, worked full time and that left just Gordon, Peggy and Jennifer. Occasionally Maurice would go down to St George’s Road and watch a little cricket; he could not sit for long. There was a brief return to the limelight when, in 1965, the Harrogate club acknowledged his contribution to the club, the town, and to cricket in general, by naming the new gates, at the St Mark’s Avenue entrance, after him. These gates were subsequently moved to the Norfolk Road entrance where they are still standing.