Her grandfather was the groundsman at Goodison Park. St. George's CC employed Sheffield native Samuel Wright as its professional cricket playing groundsman. He played for and became groundsman and secretary of Knowle and Dorridge Cricket Club. He was promoted to Highbury's head groundsman four years later. They looked across the village green and noticed the groundsman mowing the cricket pitch. After his spell at Blackpool, Burgess joined Arsenal as assistant groundsman in 1996. This job is equivalent to that of groundsman in some other cricketing nations. His father is a groundsman in the Prater. Perhaps the most notable of the early Reggies was the club's groundsman Reg Fridd. Solkar's father was the head groundsman at Hindu Gymkhana, Mumbai. His successor, Bryan Horner, was voted the Second Division groundsman of the year in 1999. The head groundsman since September 1992 is Steve Speed. In later years, he worked as a groundsman in south east London. A groundsman reportedly haunts the lower floor of the castle.