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n the mid nineties, Eamonn Murphy decided to leave a career at a large consultant engineering firm in central London to pursue one that he would enjoy. That decision saw him study for an HNC in Sports Turf Amenity Horticulture at Otley College in Suffolk, during which time he took a work placement at Ipswich Town Football Club, following which he went on to become Senior Groundsman, working under the highly regarded Alan Ferguson; “an inspiration,” states Eamonn. In 2002, Eamonn left the Suffolk club to take on the role of Deputy Head


The grounds here are simply stunning and we have, arguably, some of the most picturesque sports pitches in the UK


Groundsman at Haileybury, an independent co-educational boarding and day school in Hertfordshire. Eamonn was quickly promoted to Head Groundsman in 2004, and became Grounds & Gardens Manager in 2010. It was in 1806 that the Honourable East India Company commissioned William E Wilkins (later the designer of the National Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge, and much of the University of London) to plan the buildings for its new training college for civil servants for India. On an area of empty heath, just a few miles south of the county town, Hertford,


Wilkins created his buildings in a neo-classical style around a large grass quadrangle - still regarded to be the largest academic quadrangle in the land - and here the East India College flourished for fifty years. It was one of the country’s most


distinguished centres of scholarship and teaching and the training ground for generations of those destined to govern British India. Four years after its closure in 1858,


Haileybury opened its gates once again, this time as a public school. In 1874, a Haileybury housemaster was appointed the first


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