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Southall Park Golf Club, Greater London. (1913 - 1920s)
Founded in 1913.
From the Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette Saturday 10 May 1913 - "A new golf course for the Southall Park Golf Club has been made on the south side of the main road at Southall."
The secretary in 1914 was F Toley, 154 Uxbridge Road, Hanwell. A 9-hole course with a membership of 100. There was no entry fee. Subs for gents were £1/1/0 for half year, ladies 10/6. Visitors’ fees were 1/- a day, 2/- at weekends and Bank Holidays. Sunday play was allowed with caddies. The station was at Hanwell (GWR). A tram service passed the course.
The following report appeared in the Middlesex Chronicle in February 1918. "Ploughing Golf Links - The Middlesex Agricultural Executive Committee, by arrangement with the golf clubs, has secured the cultivation for food production purposes of land on the West Middlesex course at Southall, and the Ealing and Hanger Hill courses; and, by arrangement with the proprietor, on the Southall Park, Stanwell, and Perivale courses."
Albert Toley was the landowner, he also owned the land on three other courses in the area; Sudbury, Brent Valley and Greystoke (also now defunct). The Southall Park land was sold for housing development during the 1920s.
The course is marked on the Ordnance Survey Map below.
O.S. Map Revised 1912/13 © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1920}.
The Google Map below pinpoints the location of the former course.