Usual Suspects

         

















Home Team from left to right
Lesley Blogg. Lesley has a doctorate in hyperbarics - scary stuff- but she also has the strength of character to keep both Brian and Malcolm in line and she has an adorable puppy.
Brian Steadman. After a misspent youth in the constabulary, Brian joined the team as one of the founder members. He is now our Chief Instructor and is looking suspiciously happy about it.
Vickie Mackenzie. Having spent a considerable period selling wine to connoisseurs, Vickie’s move to our Corporate Entertainment sales desk was almost seamless. One of her uphill tasks is to keep us in touch with what is happening south of the Watford Gap. She has a lovely dog called Molly.
Clare Morton. Clare will not admit how long she has been with the estate. As Estate Administrator, she is the backbone of the business and is cheerful, decorative, helpful and omniscient. She won the Cumbria Tourist Board ‘Unsung Hero’ award in 2006.
Joanie Howard. Joanie Howard is a multi-skilled instructor as well as wedding supremo and organiser of all events in the Castle. For many people, she is the face of Greystoke Castle.

Braid Aitken. Braid has passed his good looks, charisma and vitality on to his sons, which has left him feeling uncharacteristically flat. He is normally gregarious, charming and highly competent.
David Lawton. David is the Greystoke Castle Farm’s manager. He is effectively the host on many corporate days since it is over his farmland that much of both the entertainment and training take place.
Janette Banks. Janette Banks came to us from a management training background. Her children score massive brownie points at school for having a mum who instructs on quads. She is living proof that there are exceptions to ‘blonde' jokes.
Phil Riseam. Phil Riseam has successfully completed his probationary period and is now entitled to appear full frontal. He is comparatively demure just now; the Full Monty may appear in due course.
He is an internal refugee from Alston Moor (nine months of winter and three months of driving rain) and brings with him a whole range of skills.
Leigh Stott. Leigh came to us from Outward Bound® – their loss is our gain. Though his job is ground-crew, he has a highly fertile and lateral brain have been a huge asset. When you are up to your whatsits in alligators and are struggling with a rescue kit of fiendish complexity, blame Leigh.

Stephanie Jack. Stephanie Jack is the voice of conscience for the entire organisation. Combining a genius for accounts with an unnerving ability to read minds. she manages to thwart all but the most secretive.
Colin Johnston. Colin Johnston is a self-employed driving instructor of excellent repute. He is calm, moderate, sensible and sociable. Despite this, he fits into the team very well. It takes all sorts.
Neville Howard. Neville Howard is a Director and balances uneasily on the top of a shifting pile. Twenty-three years in the Services have failed to smarten him up.
Sarah Baker. Our caterer for all events in the Castle, Sarah is an outstanding and innovative cook who will produce virtually whatever you want. Many a condemned man has requested her crunchie ice cream for his last meal.
Maire Maguinness. Maire has been on the team for twelve years, initially as an instructor. She took time out to get a degree and returned to take over the Development Training Sales desk. She denies ever having been a teenager.

Sandra Gattward. Sandra used to be a physio therapist, slipped easily into the role of chemical retail sales and then sideways into being a quad instructor – a perfectly natural progression. She is also a counter-weight to our blonde-heavy crew and runs marathons.
Dinah Scott-Harden. Dinah is one of the world's natural cooks. Nobody has ever complained about her cooking -at least not twice. Dinah caters for the outdoor events.
Malcolm Brough. Another candidate for the misspent youth award,
Malcolm joined us comparatively recently. He is old enough to have an apparently inexhaustible supply of jokes, but is still young enough to remember the punch lines.
Stephen Kirkbride. Dark, dapper and dangerous, with a good head and beloved of the Irish - and that's just the beer.
Lesley Whitfield. Having qualified in horse-care and horticulture, it was inevitable that Lesley would become a quad instructor. Having also worked for the company that supplies many of our marquees, she knew what she was getting into. She is now a multi-skilled instructor and a leading member of the team.