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CH GROUNDS MAINTENANCE LTD
DRAINAGE
Piped Drainage, Sand Slitting, SandMaster CONSTRUCTION
Sports Fields and Golf Courses RENOVATION
Verti-draining, GroundBreaker, Over-seeding Top-dressing, Koro Field Topmaker
Tel: 01494 758208
info@chgrounds.com www.chgrounds.com
Slitting Banding Maintenance
Tel 01772 877289 (Preston, Lancs) Email:
info@dixondrainage.co.uk www.dixondrainage.co.uk
The ground was in a ‘bit of a state!’
Twenty-two year old Tom Nutting explains his route into the industry and the success he has had with the square at Penn Cricket Club
Sports Ground Contractors Ltd
D W Clark DRAINAGE LTD
SPECIALIST SPORTSTURF CONSTRUCTION & DRAINAGE CONTRACTORS • Gravel Banding • Sand Slitting
• Top Dressing • Renovation • Irrigation Unit 7, Brailes Industrial Estate, Winderton Lane, Lower Brailes Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5JW
Tel: 01608 685800 Fax: 01608 685801 email:
jim@dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk Web:
www.dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk
at university. I have always enjoyed working outdoors and, during the first summer back from university, I did some gardening work. But, it was when I moved on the help Matt Clayton on the pitch at AFC Wulfrunians that I realised that groundsmanship is what I really wanted to do.
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I soon gained a lot of experience, and it wasn’t long before I was helping out with the ground at Wolverhampton Wanderers, both at the training ground and the Molineux stadium. Through this, and some other work, it allowed me to attend Rodbaston College, where I studied for an NVQ in
fter completing my A levels back in 2006, I went on to study chemistry
Sports Turf Management. I have always been a keen sportsman myself and play cricket for Penn Cricket Club, who play in the Birmingham league. It’s a popular club in the Wolverhampton area, which celebrated its centenary year in 2008.
During the off season of 2010, an opportunity arose for me to become head
groundsman of the club. I was faced with quite a challenge as, not only was this my first time in charge of maintaining a sports surface, but little work had been carried out on the square the previous season and, due to a mix up, hardly anything had been done at the end of the season either. With the harsh winter we suffered, the square,
Vertidraining, Hollow Coring, Overseeding, Draining, Gravel Banding, Field Top Maker, Deep Scarifying
Mobile: 07860 259692
Tel: 01284 735105 Email:
peter@buryturfcare.com www.buryturfcare.com
Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established 1978
Sportsturf Drainage Specialist Drainage Construction Renovation
Cricket
Hole lot of love at Penn Cricket Club
One year later ... 146 PC DECEMBER/JANUARY 2012
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