Best Price in Clacton & Beyond!

These would've come in handy in the great toilet roll shortage of 2020.

Lovely Jubbly

We saw this Del Boy advert at Bed Centres 146 in Clacton-on-Sea during our East Anglian road-trip last month.

Lovely Jubbly

It's one of a number of homages to Only Fools and Horses we've seen over the years.

Hollywood Adventure Golf in Great Yarmouth

Spotting an advert for the Windmill Theatre Crazy Golf course in Great Yarmouth.

My brother and charter member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour Christopher Gottfried recently spotted this advert for the Windmill Theatre Crazy Golf in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

We've both played the indoor minigolf course, but haven't yet had a game against each other there.

When our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour began in 2006 the course at the Windmill Theatre was one of only two indoor miniature golf courses in the UK. There are now more than 100 indoor courses!

Visit the Hollywood Adventure Golf course website for more information.

Junkyard Golf minigolf advertising in Manchester

A look at some Junkyard Golf advertising in Manchester.

I saw some more advertising for Junkyard Golf's First Street venue in Manchester while having a walk round the city centre yesterday.

On Whitworth Street West

At Oxford Road

At Oxford Road

Junkyard Golf's First Street venue in Manchester was the last course I played before the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown back on the 9th March 2020.

Hole 6 of the Pablo course at Junkyard Golf in Manchester

Visit the Junkyard Golf website for more information.

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Junkyard Golf advertising in Manchester

Spotting some new Junkyard Golf advertising in Manchester.

We saw some new Junkyard Golf posters on our first walk round Manchester in a while.

The indoor crazy golf venue in Manchester has now reopened and we saw people queuing to get in when we walked past on Saturday afternoon.

Visit the Junkyard Golf website for more information.

Playing at Junkyard Golf

The last course I played before the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown was at Junkyard Golf's First Street venue in Manchester back on the 9th March 2020.

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New advertising for Junkyard Golf in Manchester

Spotting some new advertising for Junkyard Golf in Manchester.

While on a recent trip to Manchester city centre I spotted this new piece of advertising for Junkyard Golf's indoor minigolf courses in Oxford, Manchester, Leeds and London.

Advertising for Junkyard Golf. Spotted at Manchester Piccadilly railway station

We've visited all four of Junkyard Golf's venues on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Check out the Junkyard Golf website for more info, opening times and prices.

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New advertising for Treetop Adventure Golf in Manchester

Spotting some of the new advertising for Treetop Adventure Golf in Manchester.

The new digital advertising for Treetop Adventure Golf

It was nice to spot this digital outdoor advertising for Treetop Adventure Golf while recently shopping at the Arndale centre in Manchester.

We played the two Treetop Adventure Golf courses in September last year. They were the 799th and 800th courses we've visited in the British Isles.

You can find Treetop Adventure Golf at The Printworks on Dantzic Street

Check out the Treetop Adventure Golf website for more info, opening times and prices.

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New indoor Adventure Golf course in Edinburgh

There's a new Volcano Falls indoor Adventure Golf course in Edinburgh.

While on holiday in Edinburgh Emily spotted this bit of bus advertising about the new Volcano Falls indoor Adventure Golf course that has opened at Fountain Park in Edinburgh.

As part of the launch activity the course ran a Spot the Bus promotion

We've played the Volcano Falls course at Xscape in Castleford on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Ham and Eggers wanted

I spotted this boxing job advert in Stockport town centre yesterday. The advertiser had spared the expense of doing a proper job on it.

They weren't sparing in the distribution of it either as I saw it plastered all round town.

Junkyard Golf Club on the London Underground

Spotting another advert for London's Junkyard Golf Club on the London Underground.

My mate and minigolf rival Gareth Holmes has spotted another advert for the Junkyard Golf Club while travelling on the tube in London.

Junkyard Golf Club's latest advert for its London Crazy Golf courses

There are four Crazy Golf courses at Junkyard Golf Club in the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane.

The brand also has two courses in Manchester Piccadilly - although the Manchester venue is moving to a new site in August.

Junkyard Golf is heading to Oxford too, with a new location opening at the redeveloped Westgate shopping centre.

Visit the Junkyard Golf Club website for more details on the venues, opening times and prices.

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Junkyard Crazy Golf on the tube

Spotting an advert for London's Junkyard Crazy Golf on the London Underground.

Thanks to my mate and minigolf rival Gareth Holmes for sending me this snap of an advert for London's Junkyard Crazy Golf course he spotting on the tube earlier this week.

The Junkyard Crazy Golf advert on a Northern Line tube train

We haven't been to the four London Junkyard Crazy Golf courses at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane yet, but the Manchester courses are two of our most local minigolf layouts and were the 718th and 719th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

One of the holes at Junkyard Crazy Golf in Manchester

Check out the Junkyard Crazy Golf website for further details, opening times and prices.

It's always nice to see minigolf advertising. Last year we saw an advert for the Shanklin Seafront Crazy Golf course on an Island Line tube train.

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Clothes shopping in Hong Kong...

The advertising campaign for the 2014 Spring/Summer collection at this clothes shop in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Kowloon, Hong Kong must've been a success as the poster is still up!

Emily spotted this brand name while on business in Kowloon - crazy!

Just recently we spotted a great window display of funny brand names from around the world at the Fleet Street Clinic in London. They don't always make the right impression when they travel to international markets!

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Ribenary Crazy Golf

Crazy Golf in Ribena's new marketing campaign.

I was excited to hear about the new marketing campaign from Ribena as it includes Crazy Golf!

Hole 1 is called Blackcurrant Forest. That looks like a tricky loop-di-loop (and a sneak 'Pro' shot being played around the obstacle)

The three-hole Crazy Golf course is showcasing the Ribena Flavour range - with a hole for Strawberry, Blackcurrant and Mango. As well as offering a game of Crazy Golf the Ribenary campaign team are also giving out samples of the drinks. I've heard that the course has also used scent technology to give players a whiff of the different flavours as they play.

Make sure to grab a drink after your round of Ribenary Crazy Golf

The Ribenary Crazy Golf course looks really good and it's a nice touch that they've got scorecards for players to use and keep.

Over the rainbow bridge on the Strawberry flavoured hole 2. Hole 3 features a 'Mango Maze'!

The campaign has been running since the end of July and will continue into September. So far the Ribena-themed Crazy Golf course has popped up in Cardiff, Bristol, Reading and Swindon.

This week the Ribenary Golf course is in Liverpool and Manchester. With the course rolling into Glasgow, Newcastle, Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Sheffield and Leeds in the coming weeks.

On our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour we've played minigolf in most of the towns on the list. Cardiff, Reading, Southampton, Sheffield and Leeds are all on our 'to visit' list.

Check out the #RibenaryGolf hashtag on Twitter and the Ribena website for more information.

You can't get more Ribenary than a BIG strawberry on a Ribena-themed minigolf course!

I'm feeling thirsty now!

Links:
- Ribena website
- Ribena on Twitter
- Ribena on Facebook
- Ribena on YouTube
- Ribena on Google+

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Stonehaven, Kincardineshire Official Holiday Guide

Finding an old Official Holiday Guide, including Mini Golf Putting, for the town of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire.

While on a day out in Bedford I noticed an Antiques and Collectors fair going on at St Paul's Church so popped in to see if I could find any minigolf postcards or ephemera.

I was in luck as I found an interesting old Official Guide for visitors to the seaside town of Stonehaven.

The Stonehaven Official Guide, designed and produced under the authority of the Town Council by Mearns Publications. Printed by Langstane Press, Aberdeen

Flicking through the guide I spotted a half page photo of the Putting and Bowling Greens on page 19.

Some of the entertainment and leisure facilities on offer to visitors to the town

On page 22 it states there were two putting courses in the town, and on page 35 the cost per round is given as 6d.

Stonehaven is on the north east coast of Scotland and lies 15 miles south of Aberdeen. Stonehaven is now a part of Aberdeenshire as Kincardinshire lost its administrative status in 1975. I couldn't find any other dates of publication of the old guide, but it is pre-decimal (before 1971). Very interesting to see the old phone numbers listed too - only four-digits long!

At a guess I would say the guide was produced in 1966. A recent event shown is the reopening of the old tolbooth by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1963. There is also an advert on the inside back cover for Milne's Soft Drinks and Cordials - they are endorsed by Andy Ross, the 1965 winner of the Suffolk Point to Point.

Looking online the current official website for the town is the Stonehaven Guide. You can still find a Putting course at the Stonehaven Recreation Grounds Club. Its existence was confirmed by George McGillivray of the Stonehaven Guide.

The old guide is great find, with some nice minigolf and seaside holiday history.

Over the years Emily and I have enjoyed some very nice trips to Scotland on our travels.

Links:
- Stonehaven Guide website
- Stonehaven Guide on Twitter
- Kincardineshire
- The Crazy Golf Museum

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Luton. Or is it?

A great new advertising campaign from easyJet.

Commuting isn't the most fun thing in the world, but a new advert from Luton-based airline easyJet recently brought a smile to my face on a recent trip home.

I've lived in Luton for 15 years and never seen the town's name written this way! 

It makes me proud to live in the northern region of Luton known as Lëagrâvé.

Links:
- easyJet
- London Luton Airport
- Thameslink

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