There will be a pop-up Dinosaur Mini Golf course at Swinton Square in Salford this summer.
There will be a dinosaur minigolf course in Salford this summer
Games tee-off on the free-to-play dino crazy golf course on Monday 1st August and run until Sunday 21st August. Players can tackle the course between 10am and 4pm.
We'll have to go along for a game on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour as it's quite near to us. And we've never been to that bit of Salford before.
Salford Shopping Centre opened as Salford Precinct in 1972 and was renamed Salford Shopping City in 1992
Even though the shopping precinct is now called Salford Shopping Centre the huge sign on the block of flats clearly points out where the shops are in Pendleton, Salford.
I'm still on the lookout for Happy Shopper stores with the classic signage and branding. I've been lucky to find one in Preston, a couple in Sheffield and another in Derby.
We found two miniature golf courses by accident while out on our daily outdoor exercise yesterday afternoon!
Both layouts were in the City of Salford - one was a Putting Green at Victoria Park in Pendlebury, Swinton and the other was a Pitch & Putt course at Buile Hill Park in Salford.
Neither course was open
It's always nice to find minigolf courses we didn't previously know about. It was especially crazy as both are fairly close by!
Playing a round on the pop-up Crazy Golf course at Walkden Town Centre.
Shopping mall minigolf!
On Saturday we made a short trip up the road to have a game on the pop-up Crazy Golf course at the Walkden Town Centre shopping mall in Worsley, Salford, Greater Manchester.
The course was made up of separate square tiles with plastic edge pieces holding the greens together. It'd be fun to have a load of the tiles and create some wacky minigolf layouts
The Crazy Golf course was set-up for three days as part of the shopping centre's Summer of Fun events.
Emily on hole 2
We got there nice and early and had a clear course ahead of us.
Playing hole 4
In our minigolf match-up I got the win with a score of 18 to Emily's 21.
Another minigolf course we never could've imagined playing when our travels began in September 2006!
After our game we had a wander round the shopping centre as we hadn't been there before. As we walked past the course a few more times it was nice to see lots of people enjoying a game and were glad we got there early.
It was a fun layout to play. We've played similar obstacles, but haven't been on a course using this particular size and type of putting green tiles before. It was a nice surface to putt on.
It's wonderful to see miniature golf courses popping up in different places. Shopping centres are increasingly becoming popular venues for both pop-up and permanents courses, ranging from portable courses, to skill-based minigolf, to adventure golf layouts.
Playing hole 7
When our travels began back in September 2006 there were two indoor minigolf venues among the 600 courses in the UK. One of those was in Felixstowe and the other in Great Yarmouth. There are now close to 100 indoor venues, with more opening up every week.
We visited our 600th UK course at Goodrington Sands, Paignton, Devon in June 2015. There are now around 1,000 courses in the UK, with new courses opening all the time.
The last hole was a tricky uphill shot. It was a nice ace to get though
Summer of fun to include Crazy Golf at Walkden Town Centre.
Walkden Town Centre in Greater Manchester will have a Crazy Golf course set-up in Victoria Square between 11am and 3pm on Thursday 29th, Friday 30th and Saturday 31st August.