Wealden Times | WT209 | July 2019 | Summer supplement inside

“We bought it in 2013 and started renovating after a year. It was derelict
and the main space was dark and dingy, plants were growing through the
walls and machines from the abandoned factory were all over the place.”
the space, but luckily it slotted in to the millimetre.”
And it looks like it’s always been there, with lockers
containing different-sized bowling shoes and old cinema
seats to sit on to put them on completing the scene. The
fairground attraction effect of the bowling lane’s clown face
is set off by other items around the space, including a huge
neon sign saying ‘Carnival’ – by the late neon artist and
designer Chris Bracey, who owned Gods Own Junkyard
in London – over the double doors and a basketball hoop
arcade game. “Sol gave that to me one Christmas,” says
Laurie, “because I used to play netball at county level.”
It’s impossible not to have a go on it – or in my
case, about 500, because it’s so addictive – and
then it seems the most natural thing in the world
55 wealdentimes.co.uk