Lives in Cricket No 52 - Schooled in Cricket (2nd edition)

27 At some point in time the family home at the Ropery had been condemned. Johnny was the prime mover in rescuing their home by renovating it though his brother Sam always helped him in his building projects. (The house was in disrepair again around 2007 when it was bought by the Hanna family and Richard Hanna spent four years of hard work restoring it once more and knocking through from the original two semis into one house. Richard’s widow Adele and their twin sons, now 12, Louis and Christopher still live there today in what is now known as Ropery House.) As his daughter Dinah was to tell me, he always wore old clothes and rescued as many materials from waste as possible and recycled them by reusing them purposefully. Early days Johnny’s friend and business partner, Tom Harrison, keeping wicket at Calverley CC’s home at Victoria Park near Leeds.