Family Golf & Leisure At Great Chart
The car park of the golf course. It is kind of surreal & sad to see a place you remember being operational & actively went to in your younger years looking like this.
I went to meany a birthday here & use to go here with my bother on the odd weekend to play golf in his first car.
The car park looks as it did back in the day.
Part of the pitch & put range that was out front of the golf course. A CCTV camera pole stands alone guarding nothing these days as it is non-operational.
A bench where people use to have food from the small caff at the site.
The front entrance, all boarded up & overgrown. Some golf stuff outside & some smashed porcine from the toilets, appearing to be the remains of a sink.
The caff area where you would have some food & drink. Also often where parents would wait for their kids to finish there golf games.
Surprisingly despite being a tent, it is still there & the lighting system is still wired in.
The storage area of the driving range. A surprising amount of equipment is still there, even if most of it is damaged.
Looking down the driving range, now devoid of golfers. The building is in surprisingly good condition as vandals have moved in to trash as much as possible. It was only abandoned in 2019.
One of the golf ball dispensers. This one has been gutted of the electronics, the people that did it thought there would be money in there. However the golf course use to use tokens for these machines. You would go to the front desk & but tokens that would give you about 50 balls each. The electronics were discarded nearby the machine, abandoned when the booty was not found.
Guessing the lack of money in the machine saved this one from being completely gutted. The machine despite being open is complete. You can access the back of these machine in the breaker room.
One of the coin-op units, programed to only take the tokens the club used. I did not find any of these tokens laying round the site, they had been taken by the owners or vandals.
The computer control unit of the ball dispensers. Looks very 90s, maybe 80s. Not sure, might have to investigate with a screwdriver at some point. The one next to it is but a refection.
The artery range was at the far end of the driving range. They use to have a load of target dummies setup for you to shoot at. Sadly they did not let you use your own equipment although these days I don't think anyone would care.
There was one creepy looking target dummy I teased my partner with before putting it in a location that might scare any explorers after us.
An abandoned golf club bag & trolley left in the weeds to rot. The grass use to be so finely cut. Did not take nature long to reclaim it as its own. You can also see the metal halide lamps that would light up the range in the night. Not that these clubs were often open late, more of a winter thing.
A smashed CCTV camera. All the ones that sat in the driving range had been smashed, the ones in the main building were all intact. Sadly I don't have any photos from inside the main building, guess I will have to go back there & take some more.
The mandatory smashed fluoro light in an abandoned structure. The rest of it is on the floor below.
This place was in financial trouble long before it could implement LED lighting as company's have only been doing it in recent years.
The breaker room where you can access the back of the ball dispensers & power into the whole complex. They was nothing coming into the meter meaning the power company had cut off the site from the local substation.
A paintball face mask & dismantled guns. All the building that were at this end of the course were gone. The paintball range was at the end of the driving range. While it was small, it was a fun range. Went there once or twice when it was in operation.
An overview of the paintball play area. The paths from where the outbuildings use to be & the play area have been completely taken over by stinging nettles. But you can see the articles of cover for players are still there. You can also make out the Volvo in the long grass, the other cars are hard to spot. The netting to contain stray paint balls has also mostly fallen down.
An old late 80s Volvo in the paintball range. Common for paintball ranges to have scrap cars dotted around as cover. There are a few cars littered around the play area.