Crazy Pool at Roxy Ball Room Merrion Street in Leeds

You can find a Crazy Pool course in the basement of Roxy Ball Room Merrion Street in Leeds.

We played the Crazy Pool course at Roxy Ball Room Merrion Street in Leeds while meeting up with our friend Cat for a meal at The Oxford Place in the city last month.

In our game on the 9-table layout I scored the win with a round of 17, Cat was runner-up with 26, with Emily shooting a 30.

Crazy Pool is a mix of crazy golf and cue sports, with the game played on a table using a golf ball to tackle obstacles, and played with a cue rather than a putter.

I've previously played Crazy Pool at the Roxy Ball Room venue at the Manchester Arndale.

Ten of Roxy Ball Room's 19 venues are home to Crazy Pool layouts, they are:

• Birmingham (Victoria Square)
• Bristol (Union Street)
• Leeds (Merrion Street)
• Leicester (Humberstone Gate)
• Liverpool (Hanover Street)
• London (St Mary Axe)
• Manchester (Arndale)
• Nottingham (The Cornerhouse)
• Sheffield (Charter Square)
• York (The Stonebow)

Some Roxy Ball Room venues have Mini Golf courses called Roxy Golf. We've played the Leeds and Manchester venues, and have swung by the Liverpool location on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Roxy Ball Room venues have a range of competitive socialising games

Check out the Roxy Leisure website for more information.

TT Putting Crazy Golf course in Ramsey on the Isle of Man

Looking back at our visit to the TT Putting Crazy Golf course at Mooragh Park in Ramsey on the Isle of Man.

The 18-hole TT-themed Crazy Golf course at Mooragh Park became the 827th visited and 487th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour during our summer holiday on the Isle of Man in 2018.

Videos of the course.

Photos of the course.

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Crazy Golf at Wilmslow Live 2025

There will be a Crazy Golf course at the free Wilmslow Live 2025 event in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Wilmslow Live 2025 takes place in Bank Square from 12pm to 7pm on Saturday 21st June.

Check out the Wilmslow Live 2025 website for more information.

A 'Blockbuster Video' shop in Croydon, South London

A look at a 'Blockbuster Video' store in Croydon, South London.

I recently saw a post on LinkedIn that there was a 'Blockbuster Video' shopfront in Croydon! Luckily a friend of ours was down that way recently and managed to take a couple of snaps of it.

It's intriguing to see the shopfront (and what's in the window) in 2025!

You don't see red telephone boxes that often anymore either!

The Power of Parker - filmed in Stockport - is back on the telly

The new series of The Power of Parker starts today, Friday 30th May.

The second series of The Power of Parker will be available to watch on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from Friday 30th May.

This series of the Stockport-based comedy will be set in 1992.

We won't need to tape the new series as it'll be available on the BBC iPlayer too

We're looking forward to watching - the first series was very funny, and also interesting to see all the filming locations in and around Stockport.

Last November I saw some of the set in Stockport, with the former Bright House shop on Princes Street being turned into 'Parker's Power & Electricals' electrical goods shop!

Watching the first series we also noticed that there was still a piece of Tandy signage in the town!

Rocky Reefs Crazy Golf at Lakeside Village Outlet Shopping in Doncaster

Doncaster's Lakeside Village Outlet Shopping centre has a Rocky Reefs Crazy Golf course set up for an Under the Sea themed adventure taking place from May to September.

Rocky Reefs Crazy Golf is a 9-hole layout.

Check out the Lakeside Village Outlet Shopping website for more information.

We played a previous pop-up crazy golf course at the Lakeside Village in Doncaster on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour back in 2016.

A minigolf postcard from Sasbachwalden, Germany

A look at an old miniature golf postcard showing the Miniatur-Golfplatz in Sasbachwalden, Germany.

This postcard was posted on the 5th August 1974.

MINIATUR-GOLFPLATZ SASBACHWALDEN mit Pension Bohnert. PERUTZ-Coloraufnahme Nr. OI4279. Müller-Fotokarten - Freudenstadt-Schwarzwald. Posted 5th August 1974

The course is still there - and my brother Christopher actually visited it in 2023!

Höfner Stübl Minigolf in Sasbachwalden. Photo by Christopher Gottfried, August 2023

Check out the Höfner Stübl Minigolf Facebook Page for more information.

A minigolf postcard from Hotel La Toja in Pontevedra, Spain

A look at an old miniature golf postcard of the course at the Hotel La Toja in Pontevedra, Spain.

LA TOJA (GALICIA) Gran Hotel y golf miniatura. Grand Hotel et petit golf. Grand Hotel and miniatura golf. Serie II - Num. 9760. Unposted. Undated

Interestingly the course is called 'golf miniatura', 'et petit golf' and 'miniature golf' to cater for the languages of different guests.

Looking online, while the hotel (Eurostars Gran Hotel La Toja) is still there it no longer has a minigolf course.