Friday Photo: Coastguard Cottages

Another great old photo from the Syd Bird archives! I’ve not seen these cottages mentioned before …they were the coastguard cottages situated where the boatyard/Government Road flats are now behind Hoylake Sailing Club.
Syd says that these cottages were also home to the original coast guard station and they were demolished in about 1960 to make [...]

Dr Browne of Hoylake

Many thanks to Ian Powers who captured the above row of big terraced houses that once stood on Market Street, to the left of St Lukes Church and now a large apartment block. Ian writes:
I photographed the ends of the block in 1999. I think it has now been demolished!
In the left hand hous was the [...]

Midweek Money Savers: Highstreet Stores

Here’s this weeks edition of Midweek Money Savers with a few online offers from high street stores.
Comet
Here’s some discount codes to enter at the checkout at Comet. All expire on 3rd August, 2010. Excludes Apple ipad.

8% off products over £1000: 8OFF
6% off products over £500: 6OFF
5% off products over £200: 5OFF

Click here to start shopping.
Currys
Here’s [...]

Friday Photo: A Big Lunch

Hoylake residents seem to have taken to the Big Lunch (official site) event and several lunches were held last Sunday despite the not-brilliant weather …though thankfully the really heavy rain held off until earlier this week. From what I’ve heard it sounds as though even more Big Lunches will take place next year. Caroline England [...]

Midweek Money Savers: 21st July

Just the one item in this weeks edition of Midweek Money Savers for you and it’s for DVD rentals.
A few years ago we used to go to the video rental shop on the corner of Market Street & Lee Road …where Booze Busters is now. It was okay but the popular films were always out [...]

Five Bed Semi-detached Just £7,500

Fancy a 5 bed semi-detatched with large garden in an attractive road in Meols for under £8,000?
Me too! But unfortunately we’d need to travel back in time …back to 1970 in fact, when the above advert was published in a local newspaper. Many thanks to Dave Cowderoy for sending me the above press cutting.
Interesting to [...]

News Roundup: 16th July, 2010

I seem to be chasing my tail this week (as well as drowning in email) so apologies for the lateness of the mention for the first item!
Model Weekend – 17th-18th July
This weekend a Model Extravaganza is taking place at Hoylake Community Centre. Here’s some of things to see:

Hornby Layouts in ‘O’ gauge, Hornby ‘oo’ gauge [...]

Friday Photo: Hoylake Sorting Office

Here’s a view of the Royal Mail sorting office at The Quadrant, directly opposite Hoylake station. I reckon it’s quite a nice building really, rather 1930’s looking – how about you, what do you think? Looking at the satellite view in google maps it looks like it’s a flat roofed building and there’s a car [...]

Midweek Money Savers: 14th July

Not the most exciting of topics for this weeks Midweek Money Savers …utility bills. Unfortunately, they’re certainly not the cheapest of bills either!
If you’ve never changed energy providers then you’ll be in a strong position to save a fair bit. We swapped a few years ago and then left it at that until recently. Then [...]

Fire At Houghs

Many thanks to Dave Cowderoy for sending me this 1970 press cutting about a fire at the old Hough’s Timber yard. You’ll recall that we had a good discussion about Hough’s in this post.
And by chance, yesterday I received this photo taken by Syd Bird of old houses in Hazel Road (off Chapel Road). The [...]

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