L Richard Bryce
ocated at the heart of Milton Keynes, Campbell Park hosts many of the city’s major festivals and events. Its imaginative mix of formal
gardens, water features, woodland, sports facilities and open pasture offer a wealth of attractions for residents and visitors alike. In particular, the profile of cricket has been raised by the standard now being played at Campbell Park. Robert Riekie is Landscape Manager for the Parks Trust, and is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the maintenance of all of the Campbell Park facilities. Richard Bryce has been involved with the maintenance of the facility since its conception, back in 1991, firstly as part of the contracts team charged with its upkeep and, more recently, as head of his own company, Sports Ground Services.
Maintained to a first-class standard, Campbell Park’s cricket pitch hosts a packed programme of local, county, youth, business and exhibition matches. Visit in the summer and you’ll be unlucky not to see a game, such is the
fixture list Richard has to contend with. Seating is on grass terraces and entry to most matches is free.
The first List-A match held on the
ground came in 1997 when Northamptonshire played Nottinghamshire in an AXA Life league fixture. Between 1998 and 2000, Buckinghamshire used the ground for Minor Counties matches and, in 2005, the ground hosted its first Twenty20 match when Northamptonshire played Gloucestershire. Two further Twenty20 matches were played against Gloucestershire and Warwickshire in June 2008. On June 29th, Campbell Park will host its fourth Twenty20 match between Northamptonshire and Worcestershire. Richard has always had a strong association with local cricket, spending nineteen years with Milton Keynes Cricket Club as a player, volunteer groundsman and, more recently, a cricket coach at North Crawley Cricket Club.
Having spent so long involved in the game, it was hardly surprising that he ended up working for a local sports
Richard Bryce and his contracts team look after Northants CCC’s outground, the beautiful Campbell Park in Milton Keynes. It is a task he has performed, in one guise or another, for the past twenty years, as our editor reports
The Bryce is right!
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148