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EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS


King’s School, Canterbury


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It is said that St Augustine first founded a school here in 597AD and it became the King’s School in 1541 when it was re-founded by Royal Charter under Henry VIII. Before the start of the Lent term, Neville Johnson went to this historic seat of learning to meet Neil Dixon, the man who’s just taken charge of its sports grounds and gardens


s in every cathedral city, wherever you are, a glorious ecclesiastical building looks down on you: none more so than Canterbury where there’s


an ever present sense of history. Canterbury Cathedral and the King’s School are inextricably linked. King’s School, Canterbury for all its great age is a very 21st century, co-educational private establishment with 850 students between thirteen and eighteen. It has thirteen boarding houses scattered around the precincts of the city’s cathedral. Very modern, very progressive, but with indelible links to the distant past, that’s King’s School, Canterbury. Neil Dixon took up the reins as Head of Gardens and Grounds at the King’s School only last September, moving from his home in Essex to become a ‘man of Kent’. Already there’s a pride and awe in the way he speaks about his new surroundings and the job he’s taken on here. Walking around the


school and cathedral precincts with him it is very apparent.


Neil has been in turf care all his working


life, since the age of sixteen. He started out as an apprentice greenkeeper at the Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club where he worked for seven years. He then moved on to the Lensbury Club under Peter Craig, who became a huge and lasting influence on his professional attitude. Effectively he switched from greenkeeper to groundsman in 1997, he recalls. Likely as not, it was his ten years later spent in charge of the grounds at St Paul’s School in London, and a further two as head groundsman for Regents Park, that made him a ‘shoe in’ for the job at King’s when it became available for the current school year. For the past couple of years, Neil had switched to the education side of the turf industry as a lecturer at Merrist Wood College. He had thoroughly enjoyed teaching, but began to miss the ‘cut and thrust’ of actual pitch work. The chance to


King’s Canterbury school life with the cathedral an ever-present backdrop 88 PC February/March 2020


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