Happy Easter Monday if you’re reading this on the day its posted, you might be heading out for some fun today, maybe even a trip to the seaside and a game of crazy golf – this, is the postcard for you!
This austere card is of The Sunken Gardens in Westbrook – which is near Margate in Kent apparently. Whilst I was researching this post card I discovered that the area is now a miniature golf course, but more amazingly – there is a British Minigolf Association where you can join their forums and discuss ‘all things crazy golf’. Perfect – you’ll find me hanging out there a lot from now on.
Update 1 : So apparently Andrew and Amara were walking there just today, and it is definitely NOT a crazy golf course (although there are some nearby) – thanks to Andrew and Amara for correcting my poor research! I hope it wasn’t too cold or windswept there today.
Update 2 : Andrew found some more recent photos of the place – over here on flickr
The card was sent to Mead in Eastbourne in 1954. Click more to read the full message.
Hi there. Myself and my partners daugter Amara(7) have just come back from a very windswept walk today, the last part was spent roaming the sunken gardens in Westbrook. We wanted to find out who originally built the gardens however your page was the first link in google. It definitely is not a miniature golf course and I have never known it to be one in the last 30 years althought there are plenty nearby.
Regards
Andrew and Amara
Andrew – thanks for that – thats the peril of doing a search and finding information that you trust – I’ll correct it now.
Don’t suppose you took any pictures of it that we could show off how it looks now?
I believe my grandfather was one of the builders of the Sunken Gardens (Carlton Beets Rudd), so this place has a special meaning to me.