Showing posts with label Filey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Filey. Show all posts

Sunday, February 05, 2023

Dystopia-on-Sea - Minigolf and Art

A look at a crazy piece of art.


We love the British seaside. Back in 2006 we got our first car and began travelling around the coast. That's where we caught the minigolf bug. Since then we've visited, and revisited, a lot of the UK's towns and resorts. From the big ones of Blackpool and Great Yarmouth, to classic spots like Southend-on-Sea, Cleethorpes and Skegness, to some lesser know places like Sutton-on-Sea and Maryport.

One of the seasides we visited on a road-trip back in 2008 Filey, North Yorkshire, where we played the 9-hole Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course.

Rubbish Seaside 'Dystopia-on-Sea' collection
Minigolf meets art

That course (and its BIG minigolf lobster) has been captured in a new piece of art by Leeds-based artist Jack Hurley (aka Loud Ribs) in his tongue-in-cheek, affectionate and characterful Rubbish Seaside 'Dystopia-on-Sea' collection.

Rubbish Seaside 'Dystopia-on-Sea' collection

You may recognise a couple of the characters in the piece too.

Rubbish Seaside 'Dystopia-on-Sea' collection

Rubbish Seaside 'Dystopia-on-Sea' collection

Check out the Loud Ribs website to see more of Jack's work.


Rubbish Seaside 'Dystopia-on-Sea' collection
You can find me depicted on a coaster (among other things) at the Fabrication shop in Leeds


Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course in Filey (June 2008)
Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course in Filey (June 2008)

The Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course on the seafront in Filey has actually been removed and is being replaced by a new layout, so it's doubly nice that the old layout has been captured for posterity in Jack's art.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Filey - Ocean Drive Crazy Golf - Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Course Played #56 (from the Archives)


On the same Northern Roadtrip that saw us play at the 9-hole Minigolf course in Coalville, Leicestershire, and the 9-hole Adventure Golf course in Scarborough, we also played the 9-hole Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course in Filey, North Yorkshire.


The visit on the 15th June 2008 was the 56th course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

In our match-up me and Daniel Marsh both scored 22(+4), with Emily on 27(+9). This forced a play-off, which was played on hole three. I scored a two, while Daniel scored a three, meaning I took the victory.





It was a good course, with some interesting bounce/rebound from the rope border. A great Lobster obstacle was a real focal point of the course!