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Flood damaged electrics (rear left) in the groundsmen’s hut. The frieze of pears - the club logo - was painted by its historian as a reminder of 2007 summer flood levels


Mown and almost there on 9th June


Kidderminster to continue training during Pakistan’s visit, having also used this ground for a week before returning to Blackfinch New Road in June. At the start of lockdown, work plans were submitted to the club’s Covid officer to formalise social distancing, and the protocols are still in place – the mess room is off limits due to a narrow corridor, with hospitality boxes deployed for breaks. Each member of staff has a daily temperature


check and has to complete a three question health check on What’s App before coming into work.


“From the first week of the pandemic, if a player had left his bags or even a bottle of water in an area where we wanted to work, we couldn’t touch them. No-one realised how long it would last, but it has become normal practice now.”


“When just two groundsmen are working, it’s easy, as we have two rollers and two


tractors which are assigned to different members of staff. With more staff now back at work it’s more difficult, but we disinfect everything regularly and just have to remember that you can’t jump on and off any tractor.”


Plans to recruit a fifth member of staff have been put on hold, and Tim ‘borrowed’ a groundsman for the first week of the Pakistan fortnight, only for his assistant to break his wrist, taking them back down to a


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