Flat out for St Helens Rugby League
Posted on: July 5, 2010 by normanmaitland posted in News
We’re hard at work this week at the St Helens training ground under a contract for which PSD are the consultants. St Helens are the most successful club of the modern era, having most recently won the Carnegie Challenge Cup Trophy three years in a row and the League Leaders Shield four years in a row.
Our work entails stripping off one pitch to a depth of 275mm and stock piling the spoil for use later. The pitch is uneven so we are laser-grading the formation level before re-spreading the top soil, importing and spreading 30mm of sand and ameliorating that into the soil and seeding.
The site of the St Helens training facility is shared with Cowley Language College and we shall be scarifying, verti-draining topdressing and over-sowing two additional pitches for them while we are there.
PS for the history buffs: St Helens RFC was founded in 1873, and moved to their current ground at Knowsley Road in 1890. They were founder members of the breakaway Northern Union in 1895, from which the 13-a-side game we know today evolved.
