About Anglia and Midland Sports Surfaces - founded 1979
Anglia and Midland Sports Ltd is a specialist constructor of premium quality tennis courts and multi-use sports surfaces. The company is owned and run by Rory Shepherd, a second-generation tennis court builder.
Rory had been brought up visiting and working on tennis courts. He obtained a national diploma in construction before joining En Tout Cas, the largest sports surfacing company in the world at that time, as a contracts manager in 1973. He left in 1979, starting Anglia and Midland, He has held a Licentiate of the I.O.G. for a number of years. Rory specialises in designing attractive tennis courts, and landscaping around courts.
Neil Shepherd B.Sc., C.Eng., M.I.E.E., who runs the office, spent ten years as a professional electronics design engineer with GEC before joining Anglia & Midland in 1985. Neil's computing skills have been utilised to provide our AMlight floodlighting design capability, with systems installed on over 200 courts. His major responsibilities lie in general office administration, preparing quotations, ordering materials, and dealing with supplier and customer accounts.
Celia Shepherd manages our maintenance division from our Market Harborough office (Tel: 01536 772005) She looks after the colour-spraying of new courts, and cleaning and repainting of older courts.
Our experience - 36 years and more than 4,000 tennis courts
To date we have surfaced about 4,000 courts. There are many private courts from the Humber to the Thames, and we would be pleased to arrange for you to play on one of these. We are always happy to come out and meet to discuss and design a court to your requirements.
All our courts are built by teams of experienced professionals. We have five dedicated construction teams led by two construction managers. All of our foremen have been in the industry for more than 20 years. And four of those five have been with our company for more than 20 years. Carpet laying is carried out by our dedicated team of specialists. All excavation work is carried out by our own highly skilled excavator driver. Health and safety issues are managed in consultation with Mentor Services, which is a div ision of Nat West Bank.
Planning consultation work, where required, is carried out by Mark Jarman of Planning for Tennis. The service aims to help secure planning permission for all types of tennis related infrastructure ranging from a single garden tennis court to other more extensive tennis club facilities. For more information about Planning for Tennis CLICK HERE.
We operate from a purpose built office, as our address suggests, but that doesn't mean we switch off from tennis courts at five o'clock. Out of office hours, the phone is normally diverted to a home number. We are happy to take your calls there in the evenings and at weekends, just ring our Head Office number: 01832 272449.