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Try to forget that it’s pretty much wet, grey and grotty at the moment and imagine residents of Hoylake past enjoying a traditional white Christmas, with a tree-lined Market Street covered in a blanket of brilliant white snow.
Many thanks to Mike Wilson who sent me this post card many months ago …I set myself a reminder to publish it today.
Unfortunately, the weather for Christmas is likely to be more of what we’ve had this week. Oh well.
In the words of Bob Cratchit:
A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!
What a lovely nostalgic scene and great to see a well known old Hoylake family name on the side of the bread van.
This was part of a set of Christmas cards purchased in the Post Office close to the corner of Alderley Road some years ago. They all had the same picture and I sent them to friends and family who no longer lived in the area, but kept one for myself, as it shows where we used to live,3rd bay window from the left. A reminder of gentler times.
Merry Christmas everyone.
My grandparents used to live across the road from Brosters and I used to spend a lot of time watching the bread making, the smell was delicious! As a reward for ‘helping’ I used to get a small Hovis loaf, happy days. I think my dad, Stanley Dodd used to deliver Brosters bread on his bike as well as his siblings.
Hello Mike
So lovely to see such an old fashioned christmas. what a pity we still can’t bye those cards I would dearly love to have one. The horse and baker’s cart is my mother Nellie Broster’s[Aunty Nellie] cousin. Mum and her brothers and sisters lived in the old Farmhouse 78 Market Street where the Co-op is now in the Row The only picture I have got of the cottages is in the 1960’s when it was about to be pulled down. If you have got any more pictures of old Hoylake Mike could you put them on the Hoylake Junction site,I would love to see them.
Happy New Year Everyone,
Helen Carr [nee Jones]
Hello Helen,
It’s good to hear from you. Unfortunately, all the old photo’s I have are of the family, rather than of Hoylake itself. It is some years now since I left the area, and I can only guess at the location of the Row. Is it where the shops came out closer to the road, making the pavement very narrow, where John Morgan’s parents had a hardware store at one end, and Johnny Haskins sports shop was at the other. I recall that Percy Harrop’s butchers shop and the Moo Cow milk bar were about number 64.
Happy New Year to all.
Hello Helen,
do remember in the late 1940`s there was quite often a street photographer in Market St. who always stood outside Jesse Bird`s house which was No.80 Market Street .I always remember him when I used to visit my granny and grandad there. My wife has a couple of family photos he took.
Hello Mike
If you type in Friday Photo Before the Row and scroll down, you will see the row of cottages for sale in the 1960’s they where our Old Farmhouse joined on to Jesse Birds and Haskins shop.
Good to hear from you,
Helen.
Hi again Helen/ Syd,
My Alzheimers must be gaining pace. I found the photo you guided me to, and also found I had made some observations on it too. Old age and it’s symptoms I guess.
I remember the photographer in Market St. and still have a photo of me aged about 3 years old taken by the bus stop outside the Ship Inn, and another of my Dad and my Uncle Bob staggering out of said hostelry some years later. My Uncle lived near High Wycombe, and he and his family used to come and stay with us every summer. He was known in the Ship Inn as the Duke of Buckingham.
Hello Syd,
Yes I do remember that street photographer. What I remember is that he used to run in front of us taking the photo without asking and I think you felt guilty if you didn’t buy them. I can remember some people saying no thank you. Was he working for a local newspaper. I think I have still got some of the old photo’s in my mother’s things. I would love to put them up on my computer for you to see, but I don’t know how.
Take care,
Helen.
Hello Helen,
I am concerned that you wrote ” I would love to put my old photos up on my Computer for you to see but I don’t know how”.
I would recommend that you photocopy your old photographs. Then you could send the photocopies to someone who could advise on their suitability .for inclusion on this website. ( Syd Bird springs to mind )
I would NOT recommend that you send your old photographs out of your possession.!
Alternatively – speak to the Librarian in Market Street. Ask them if they can scan one of your photos into one of their computers. If so, ask them to transmit the scanned photo to your own computer. ( Remember to take proof of identity to the Library )
Failing all that – I will go to Plan B.
PS The last time I advised one of the Carr clan they ended up with a golf club off EBay !
PPS The club was made by an old Carr crafrsman.
Ricky Cooper.