Lee-Over-Sands Golf Club

I found an interesting page this evening while browsing through Google Images of Lee-Over-Sands which sheds some light on the history of the area before it was bought by Smiths Farms in the 1960s. 

I remember the land surrounding our houses in Lee-Over-Sands were sold originally as plots for the "Healthy Lee-Over-Sands" holiday park, which was intended to be developed after the War, I believe in the 1960s, which liquidated and forced a sale of the land.

But I was unaware of the previous usage of the land prior to our homes being built circa 1934.
It seems that the land was originally a golf-course in 1924, some 10 years before the houses were built on Wall Street.

The bungalow was originally the "clubhouse" this was knocked down a couple of years ago and was on the bend after the original Lee-Wick farmhouse which you can see behind the treeline, Notice the distinctive bend in the road.

As you can see from this sketched map, "Beach Road" and "Wall Street" did not exist then, although no source can be verified for this map, presumably its been redrawn in modern times for the website given the intensity of the colouration.

I heard stories that troops were billeted into the homes on Beach Road and Wall Street during that time, hence the pillbox and tank traps near the creek. 

Apparently the golf club vanished after the war - This makes some sense as I'm sure during wartime troops would have not encouraged golfers whacking projectiles from behind them! 

Perhaps more information about the wartime history of Lee-Over-Sands will surface eventually.

You can read the full golf orientated web-page I found here