[Mark_Rowlinson]

I missed these:

Southend, is that Belfair in the distance? 1928



Two damaged pictures of a new housing estate being built by the North Circular Road, near the Brent Reservoir in Dollis Hill. There appears to be some sort of golf course in the foreground. I can’t tell you which it is. 1928





And Southend Belfairs 1928 kindly sent to me by Paul Turner:

[Paul_Turner]

Hopefully Tony M will see this last few and comment.  He's the only GCAer I know who's played it, now that Melvyn is no longer here.  Looks like the course has only just opened with many of the hedges still intact.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

And I've just discovered a few more I've missed, including the Balmoral estate. Tomorrow, hopefully. Dinner calls - water buffalo. It's wonderful meat.

[Niall C]

Paul

Re that last one. I was thinking perhaps it had been open a while judging by the paths that were presumably created by wear and tear. The hedging might have been left if they still had grazing on the course. Just a thought.

Niall

[Paul_Turner]

Niall

Yes it looks like about 1-2 years...course was opened in July 1926 according to the website.  I thought it looked a bit unfinished with that hole isolated near the playing field and with a fence(?) demarcating it.

[Tony_Muldoon]

Mark the Southend Club in the first Photo is Thorpe Hall which I believe was Sir Michael Bonnlack's home club.
http://www.thorpehallgc.co.uk/clubhouse_2/history/



Belfairs is the Course Colt listed in his adverts as Southend. I've posted pictures before and the bit we can see is the older 9, the holes in the trees can't have been open long as it took them several years to dynamite them into being.
 The Luftwaffe also photographed there in 1939.  (interesting re the comments on the Thorpe Hall Site)



The holes we can see in your image are today's 7, 10, 11 5 and 4.  Unfortunately my pictures of the course are not numbered and I'll try and get more time to look at them but i' surprised how many of the features on your photo appear to still exist in some form.









Can someone plesae tell me exactly how to find these on the website, I'd like to feed back to the local historian who helped me?

[Colin Macqueen]

Tony,

If you mean how to access the aerials this is the web page address


http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/flight/afl2010

I just type in the area e.g. carnoustie and see what I get (Carnoustie gives me a jute mill and a glimpse of the Barry burn winding around a few bunkers!). I'm not sure how Mark got such fine overheads but those areas may just have been more photographed than canny Carnoustie!

Cheers Colin

[Tony_Muldoon]

Thanks Colin.

The search seems worse than the one on here. North Berwick comes up with hundreds of unrelated images, Hampton Court comes us with 101 images including one of North Berwick! Will keep playing with it.


Again the frustration of nearly... Bemebridge come up with this lovely view of the harbour.
That spit of land on the right was The Royal Isleof Wight GC, one of the most significant of the NLE courses.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw000786?search=bembridge&ref=4

[Tony_Muldoon]

Another you missed Mark!

Strawberry Hill GC 9 holes. Never played it but it had quite a good local reputation.

Thats Fulwell GC again, in the background.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw023242?search=thames%20ditton&ref=73

Do I have to add IMG etc?

[Adam Lawrence]

Tony, if you're looking for a particular course, I think the map search is better than the other options - you can zoom in on an area and they're pretty accurately located.

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

Mark,

Not sure if you missed Nyn Park, Northaw or not:

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw032261?filter=new&ref=55

[Tony_Muldoon]

There’s an NLE Golf Course here.



Molesey Hurst GC. Flat but on sandy soil. When it closed the turf was lifted and relaid on Ascot Racecourse.

It was also the site where the Reverend Carlyle played Golf with David Garrick in 1758, one of the first recorded games outside Scotland.

it has a long history of sports.

http://www.marketingreinforcements.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index_hurstpark.html  
(Read to the bottow of the page, a local resident with a sense of humour.)





Apologies Mark if you have already listed these.

It’s great fun searching but  after a while you start imagining Golf Courses are there.


Tenby
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/lib/aerofilms-images/public/wales/WPW055514.jpg


Did you put this one up? I found it under Untitled.
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw015721?search=clapham%20common&ref=0

[Colin Macqueen]

Tony,

I registered and was able to zoom in on images.  Here is The Old Course circa 1932.  The Royal and Ancient just misses out but most of the course is evident.

The Road Hole with the original "black" shed is clear but where is the line of charm!!



Cheers Colin

[Tony_Muldoon]

I will try that thanks Colin.

Incidentally your aerial shows to the left of the 17th, the lost holes from the Eden Course which were sacrificed in order to have a practice ground.  I know they are much missed, can anyone describe them?



I also see the New Course, was their no clubhouse at all?

[Jon Wiggett]

Was it not the Eden Course?

[Tony_Muldoon]

Was it not the Eden Course?

Of course it was Jon,  I had also looked at the land to the right of the New Course and you know what happened next.

Thank you and I've edited the post above.

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