When: Saturday 18th May at 1pm till 4pm

Where: West Kirby Residential school, Meols Drive. West Kirby

What: A fun afternoon with Chester Rock choir performance, football match, cake and refreshments, Beat the goalie, Tug of War, Bouncy castle, face painting, balloon release and raffle.

In aid of: Alder Hey Hospital, Manchester children’s hospital, Make a Wish Foundation and Ronald McDonald House.

Anti-nazi Drama takes to the Stage

A play about Hitler’s rise to power, first performed in 1938, is to be staged again, at Melrose Hall in Hoylake.

“Fear and Misery of the Third Reich” by German writer Bertold Brecht was written as a protest against what was happening in the playwright’s homeland as the Nazi Party strengthened its grip on the country in the years leading up to the Second World War.

The action charts with brutal honesty the growing tyranny of Hitler’s rule and the chilling effects his policies had on ordinary people.

“In one way, it can be seen as a play about how people behave in societies where just to speak out against official policy is an act of incredible courage,” says director, Tom Mclennan.” But, the play also looks at how we all behave when faced with conflicting interests and how we often find justifications for our own selfish actions by pretending they have been taken for more noble reasons.”

It all sounds like serious stuff, but as those who are familiar with Brecht’s work can tell you, humour is often used to expose and highlight human foibles and to attack corruption.

The play runs at Melrose Hall, Hoylake on the 17th May. All tickets £6/5 and can be obtained from Melrose Hall, Melrose Avenue , Hoylake ,
CH47 3BU or from HELP SHOP 59, Market Street, Hoylake or 0151 632 2152 632 2152

Performances start 7.30pm.

More details from 0771 684 8894

TIPTOE THROUGH THE BLUEBELLS

St Hildeburgh’s beautiful church in Hoylake is famous for the flower arrangements created by the church’s Ladies’ Guild, especially at Easter, Harvest and Christmas.

Most of the flowers are paid for by a single fund-raising coffee morning, this year on Saturday, May 4 – just when the church grounds will be carpeted with bluebells, providing an extra incentive to come along.

There will be cake, book and bring & buy stalls, a tombola and a raffle.

The event runs from 10.30am-12noon and admission, costing £1, will include unlimited coffee or tea and biscuits.

St Hildeburgh’s, the parish church of Hoylake, is on the corner of The King’s Gap and Stanley Road, opposite the Green Lodge.

Poet Wilfred Owen has strong ties to Hoylake so you might find the above exhibition of interest. Additionally if you know anyone who knows anything about local poets, the organisers are trying to find biographical details about Rachael Bates, Catherine Bridson and Catherine M. Jackson whose work was published in “Poets of Merseyside” in 1923 and found through the kind help of Sheena Gaskell of the Birkenhead Reference Library.

St John’s Church, Meols, celebrates its Centenary on Sunday April 14th with a Special Service attended by The Bishop of Chester and Civic Dignitaries at 10-30 am.

The Church will have displays of the many activities which have taken place over the past 100 years in the Church, on the Green and in the Old School in School Lane, Meols (photos).

The Church will be open to the Community on Saturday April 13th, Thursday April 18th and Saturday 20th April from 10 am to 4 pm for anyone to come and view the Story of St John’s over the last 100 years. There will also be a Knitted Display of the Story of John the Baptist the Patron Saint of the Church.

Refreshments will be available in the Church Centre and everyone will be most welcome.

If you have any connections with the Church over the years you will be delighted with the pictures and to see how the Church has moved into the vibrant community it is today.

Hoylake Lifeboat Museum have re-scheduled the Valuation Day with Partridge & Bray. It will now be held on Saturday, 20 April 2013, at the Museum from 1-4pm. Valuations will be priced at £2 per item, or 3 items for £5. All proceeds raised in aid of the Museum. Refreshments will be available. Everyone is welcome.

Please note that due to adverse weather conditions, the valuation day due to be held at Hoylake Lifeboat Museum on Saturday, 23 March has been postponed.

Here’s the latest news from Hoylake In Bloom via Jan Foster:

We are holding a grand opening of our sensory garden at the Meols end of the Parade Gardens (mosaic pictured) by the Mayor of Wirral, Councillor Gerry Ellis on April 13th at 11.30am. All are welcome!

We are very happy with the support of other groups and individuals during the ongoing development of this project. Special thanks go to Mr John Kempster, who dug in all the rope posts on an awful, cold day and to Mr Richard Cornah and the Hoylake Lifeboat for splicing (hope that is the right term) the ropes.

A big thank you to Hoylake Village Life for donating £250.00 to the wild flower project. Along with grants and the money raised at our fund raiser we have £6000.00 towards sensory play equipment. It is truly amazing what can be done when we all work together!

Our AGM is on April 27th at 10am at Melrose Hall. Some of our trustees are retiring this year so we are looking for nominations for chairman, treasurer, secretary and general trustees. We are very lucky to have an amazing person, Rachael Ormrod, to give a talk on her trip ” trekking in Nepal”. Her photos and stories of this trip are truly wonderful. NOT TO BE MISSED!

You can read more about Friends of Hoylake & Meols In Bloom on their website.

‘Let’s do the Continental’ is the title of Brenda Gande’s latest flower-arranging course. Brenda, a qualified NAFAS demonstrator, will introduce beginners and improvers to techniques which will add warmth and colour to their homes.

The course will be held at St Hildeburgh’s Church Centre, Stanley Road, Hoylake, on Tuesdays at 7.40pm , in six sessions over seven weeks: March 19 and 26, and April 9, 16, 23 and 30 (missing Easter Tuesday, April 2).

The whole course costs only £15 with all proceeds helping to fund St Hildeburgh’s big flower festival on June 21-23. For more details or to enrol, contact Brenda at brendagande@yahoo.co.uk

(NAFAS is the National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies.)