TWENTY Questions
Adrian Beagley - looking forward to answering the begging letters, hopefully from good looking women!
Who are you? Adrian Beagley, Deputy Grounds Manager, Charterhouse School.
Family Status - Recently separated.
Who is your hero and why? Barry Sheen, he was the best Grand Prix motorcyle racer.
What is your dream holiday? There is no dream location for me.
What annoys you the most? People with clipboards doing surveys.
What would you change about yourself? Nothing. What you see is what you get.
Who wouldn’t you like to be? Anybody on a worldwide wanted list.
Favourite record and why? Hotel California by The Eagles - no particular reason.
Who would you choose to spend a romantic evening with? Any good looking woman with a sense of humour.
If you won the lottery what would be the first thing you would do? Probably answer all the begging letters!
If you were to describe yourself as a musical instrument, what would you be and why? A guitar.
What is the best advice you have been given? Be yourself.
What is your favourite smell? Do you really want to know!
What do you do in your spare time? Golf and play cricket for the Surrey Over 50s.
What is the daftest work related question you have ever been asked? Do you mark out the swimming pool lanes supplied with a snorkel and flippers?
What is your favourite piece of kit? Any ride-on mower which produces a fine finish.
What three words would you use to describe yourself? Neat, tidy, dedicated.
What talent would you like to have? To play the piano at a top level (how dull!).
What makes you angry? Having the volume on the television just right, until the bloody adverts come on and destroy the peace!
What law/legislation would you like to see introduced? Adverts at the same volume level as the rest of the programmes!
Sir Greville Spratt Athletics Stadium
Adrian Beagley Deputy Head Groundsman
Adrian Beagley has worked at Charterhouse ‘man and boy’. “I had decided that, after dossing around for the previous summer holidays, I would try and get a job to earn some money. This was in 1968, and I would have been sixteen years old. I was lucky enough to get six weeks work here at Charterhouse. I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought, I’m cut out for this. I went back to school in September, but only lasted a few days and just quit, which you could sort of do back in the sixties. Charterhouse took
me on, and here I am forty-three years later.”
Adrian has seen huge changes in that time, with the
advancement of machinery and maintenance techniques, but maintains that the basics remain the same. “It’s all about attention to detail. Groundsmen and women must have pride in what they are doing. That’s the bottom line. I have instilled that in all the staff here during my time, and it’s great to know that Dave shares my views.” As well as mentoring the younger members of the team,
Jason Hunter Lead Groundsman Winter Pitches
AT the age of fifteen, Jason Hunter was already running his own landscaping business back in his native South Africa, whilst still at school. “I lived on a six acre property in Port Elizabeth, and the work I did on the grounds saw me gain a runners- up spot in a national landscaping competition.” “I then moved on to landscaping commercial properties, whilst taking a Bachelor of Commerce correspondence degree at Oxford Brookes in Information Technology, which was paid for by the landscaping work.” “I moved to the UK in 2003, working, for a short while, at the University of Surrey and for Glendales, before coming to Charterhouse.”
It was whilst undertaking an
FA Winter Sports Maintenance course at Southampton Football Club, that Jason first met Dave Roberts, who was the tutor for the day.
Jason has also completed Level 2 Cricket and Artificial Surface Maintenance courses. “I am responsible for all the winter pitches, the athletics track, all hard surface tennis courts, lacrosse, summer lettings and marking out. In addition, I manage the green waste project. We now have an ongoing relationship with a few local tree surgeons and contractors who bring their waste material here for us to compost down.” The football pitches are spread
across the whole site. Northbrook accommodates seven pitches and two training grids, Broom & Lees six pitches and three training grids and Lessington one pitch and one training grid. The main pitch is situated on Big Ground where some of the original rules of Association Football were drawn up.
During the cricket quarter nineteen grass hockey pitches are provided, along with
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