Friday Photo: Sandhey Slipway

Many thanks to Ian Powers who has sent in two great photos related to the Sandhey slipway, which is the slipway just past the Meols end of the Parade Gardens. The above photo shows a fresh fish seller and Ian says:
…a photo of Sandhey Slipway with a fish seller selling whatever the local fishing boats [...]

Sporting Glory

Thanks to Kevin Radford for sending in two old photos of a sporting theme. Spot the old parish hall in the background – today that’s the site of the houses called Grove Terrace. Kevin says:
This was when you could play football in the Grove swings but not in the park next door. Parish Hall in [...]

Friday Photo: Meols Parade Gardens

You wait all day and then three arrive at once!
I normally prepare the Friday Photo in advance and schedule the publication date for the Friday morning, or I’ll create the post on the Friday morning. But after having one of those weeks I just haven’t had chance, so I apologise for the late arrival of [...]

Friday Photo: 1930’s Sand Yacht

Many thanks to Chris R for sending in this great old photo of a 1930’s sand yacht. Hoylake is of course a favoured location for land yachting and the sands have even hosted a european championship (I’ve got several photos somewhere). The Wirral Sand Yacht Club (official website) is based in Hoylake (at the Community [...]

Friday Photo: Old Hoylake Garage

Thanks to Ian Powers for sending in a photo of the old Burnetts Garage …I was hoping someone would have a photo of this old place.
Located on the corner of Birkenhead Road and Sandringham Avenue, opposite Deneshey Road, this old garage must have been around until sometime in the 80’s. There is a petrol station [...]

Friday Photo: Chemical Spraying

We’ve previously discussed the spartina grass that is growing strongly down on Hoylake beach. If you don’t know what it is, here’s a photo of it taken last September.
It’s not a new problem though as the above press cutting from 1965 indicates. Vaughan Williams (Chairman, Hoylake Community Centre) sent me the article in which he [...]

Friday Photo: 1966

1966 – the year that England won the World Cup, Pickles the dog found it again (full story) and Hoylake got it’s current telephone exchange.
This plaque is fixed to the front of the Hoylake telephone exchange.  The nondescript building is situated on Birkenhead Road next to the entrance of Queens Park. I happened to be passing [...]

Friday Photo: The Lost Volcano

Here’s a great old photo – not of a lost volcano but of Market Street, outside the old Kingsway Cinema (and now Home Bargains). Thanks to Hoylake Photographic Society for allowing me to republish it.
I am dating this photo as summer 1950. The advertised film Bomba & The Lost Volcano was released in 1950 according the [...]

Friday Photo: Gasometer

Here’s an unusual photo that was kindly sent to me by new HoylakeJunction.com reader and local photographer Carol Tipping. It’s a view from Cable Road South of the old Hoylake gasometer. A gasometer is used to store natural gas at the right pressure and temperature (so says this Wikipedia article). I think you can see a [...]

Friday Photo: Queens Park Sledging

There has been just enough snowfall in Hoylake for people to enjoy the pleasures of sledging in Queens Park. With most local schools closed due to the bad weather, local children and their parents have been enjoying themselves on a wide range of sledges.
The small hills in Queens Park that are coated in very slippery [...]

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