EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS


canals with British Waterways (now Scottish Canals) doing all the ditching on the Forth and Clyde.”


Dollar Academy was founded in 1818 by John McNabb. It is an independent co- educational day and boarding school. The open campus site is in the centre of the town of Dollar in the county of Clackmannanshire and is home to around 1300 children aged five to eighteen.


Amongst an impressive list of famous alumni can be found Sir James Dewar - inventor of the vacuum flask and John Barclay - former Scotland Rugby captain. Outside the main school building, designed by Edinburgh architect William Henry Playfair, fifty-six-years-old Robert explains that his role has seen a slight change of direction since the pupils have come back from Covid-19 closure. “The school has had to put up marquees on the lawns just in front of the main building


The school has had to put up marquees on the


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lawns just in front of the main building to give more space, so the pupils can adhere to social distancing rules


Robert Meldrew on his Ferrari 80 PC October/November 2020


to give more space, so the pupils can adhere to social distancing rules,” explains Robert. Whilst he is well aware that these changes are necessary, it has meant a change to his usual annual routine for the maintenance of the grounds. Robert has a healthy yearly budget with a purchasing limit of one thousand pound. Anything over that must be approved by the Bursar as it may have to come out of the capital expenditure. Other than that, he is responsible for the day to day running of the grounds department.


“Over the years, myself and the Bursar have worked closely together, so we have an understanding. If I must spend twenty thousand pounds on renovation works, I do not have to go and see him about that because we do that on year on year basis. If I wanted to go and buy something like a new ride-on mower, then I must agree that with him, but other than that we just get on with it


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