A Bird In The Book
May 4, 2009 by John · 3 Comments
Regular reader Bernie who now resides along way from Hoylake in Ontario, Canada has sent me some great information relating to the Jesse Bird discussions that we’ve been having.
These two images are apparently taken from the 1923 Hoylake & Meols telephone directory:
Well, there were certainly a few Hoylake residents named Bird around back in 1923! Jesse Bird was listed as 80a Market Street. Do you see the entries for Church Road – was there a Church Road in Hoylake many years ago or do you think that relates to the one in West Kirby?
Possible related posts (computer generated):
Has anyone got a 1950s Phone directory for Hoylake? Belive it or not there were a couple of sisters listed in the directory, and their surname was Tickle. Yes, the entry reads:-
Tickle the misses
I don’t remember Church Road in Hoylake, we had Chapel Road and Trinity Road, so I am agreeing with your guess that Church Road in West Kirby is the one.
Hoylake was one of the last manual telephone exchanges in the UK you just lifted the phone and asked for the number, I think the YMCA was 330, but would guess you could ask for it by name. The switchboards were on the first floor of the building behind the Town Hall, overlooking Hoylake Station. The Automatic equipment, when installled went into the “modern” Building next to the Cottage hospital. We might have gone automatic a lot earlier were it not for the Second World War. I am sure someone in the Army saw stuff sign written for Hoylake being installed eleswhere in the world!
In reply to the post by Ian P. The misses Tickle lived in a detached house in
the the trees in Newton on Cross lane. The site is now the council allotments.
The sisters owned a 1939? Standard 9 car that that we used to service at the garage at the end of Cross lane Mount Motors.
When the “misses” gave up driving the car was purchased by Mr E Jeffs.
Hoylake’s Church Road is now Trinity Road, not sure why it was changed. Maybe because there was confusion with the one in WK!