Mary Portas, Queen of Shops and her BBC film crew were back in Market Street earlier today, finishing off their filming of the revamped Fosters green grocers. As you can see, the shop is now called … [Read more...]
Friday Photo: Promenade Plaque
Well, well ! I thought this promenade wall plaque was buried under sand but as you can see it isn't! I was out walking on the beach yesterday morning with our dog when I spotted this commemorative … [Read more...]
Boating Lake Fundraiser: Elton John Night
Kate from Vanilla Lounge has been in touch as they're holding another charity night to raise more money for the now open boating lake. It's an Elton John tribute evening and tickets cost £10 and … [Read more...]
Forthcoming Site Update
Just to let you know that later this week I'll be updating the layout of the site. I want to include some changes including: a new, lighter newspaper style layout improved thumbnail … [Read more...]
Model Boating Lake Official Opening
This Saturday afternoon at 2.30pm saw the official reopening of the restored model boating lake. Pictured is the Mayor of Wirral, Andrew Hodson launching a model boat into the water. To his right is … [Read more...]
News Roundup 18 September, 2009
A few items of news and follow-ups to old posts. Have you noticed all the new rubbish bins dotted along the promenade? As you can see from the photo we appear to have moved up-market and we've … [Read more...]
Model Boating Lake Ready
It's my turn next, you've got a real one Grandad! I guess this photo epitomises why some local people got together to get Hoylake's model boating lake back in action - family fun! Pictured is Dave … [Read more...]
Friday Photo: Hoylake Parish Church
Another fab photo from the Syd Bird image library (thanks Syd) ! This old image shows the Hoylake Parish Church that was in Trinity Road (formerly Church Road). This photo ties-in with this weeks … [Read more...]
Model Weekend At Lifeboat Station
As we ready ourselves for our restored model boating lake (it had a bit of water in it last night) you can see a whole range of models this weekend at the lifeboat station. The RNLI are holding a … [Read more...]
Deplanting Day
Jan Foster of Hoylake In Bloom has been in touch to let us all know of the forthcoming Deplanting Day! As the summer flowers in the tubs and containers in Hoylake and Meols need deplanting (not sure … [Read more...]