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Bristol Rugby Star Comes to Garlands Leisure

garlandsleisure — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:12:56 +0000

On Sunday 24th January we had the pleaseure of Roy Winters the captain of Bristol Rugby Club who attended Garlands Leisure with the rest of his stag party (well some of it anyway as many couldn’t make it after the celebrations of the previous night!)

The group had a great time and enjoyed quad bike trekking and powerturn buggie racing. Roy even managed to get himself onto the podium but unfortunately didn’t perform as well as on the rugby pitch the Friday before (winning against Coventry) as he only managed a silver medal, pipped to the post by his brothers who took gold!

Was The Battle of Bosworth @ Garlands Leisure?

garlandsleisure — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:33:36 +0000

There’s been alot of talk in the press recently about the real location of the Battle of Bosworth not being at the current site where the visitors centre is. Garlands Leisure’s main site here at Mythe Farm has a location marked on the OS map called “King Dick’s Hole” (don’t laugh!) and apparently this is where Kind Richard III watered his horses on the way to the battle field or if you listen to another chain of thought it is where King Richard died during the battle (Bosworth 1485: The Psychology of a Battle by Micheal K Jones). If you look at the map below you can see that the suggested location for Richards camp is here at Mythe Farm!

Micheal K Jones Map of Battle of Bosworth

On our quad trekks we drive straight through “King Dicks Hole” (stop laughing!) and you can see Merevale Abbey in the distance where Henry Tudor was based prior to the battle.

So why not immerse yourself in history and come on a quad bike trek here at Garlands Leisure and we’ll talk you through some of the history of the site.

To know more about the Battle’s history and the alternative suggestions for the battle we suggest this book

Bosworth 1485: The Psychology of a Battle by Micheal K Jones

garlandsleisure — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:16:41 +0000

Garlands Leisure’s Powering On!

We’ve just bought another 2 seater powerturn to add to the fleet. For those of you that don’t know, a Powerturn is a crazy buggie type machine that you drive using two leavers. Each lever is connected to a brake and one of the 2 engines, push the lever forward and you acellerate pull back and it locks the brakes on. Therefore you can slide sideways, pull wheelies and spin on the spot! Madness!

Wheelieeeeee!!!!!!

Here’s a video of a single seater powerturn.