Hoylake Junction

I’m still attempting to clear my email mountain(s) and in doing so I’ve just been viewing some great images kindly sent to me by Ian Davies (Hoylake RNLI). There are some great old photos of Hoylake and Meols that I’ll share with you all in due course but I thought I’d start by sharing this one with you.

It’s Trinity Road from years gone by – there isn’t a date so if you’d like to hazard a guess feel free. It could well date from around 1900. You can see the Parish Church in the background and of course houses hadn’t then been built on the lefthand side of the road (the view is looking up Trinity Road from near the promenade).

What was that building in the foreground where the men are standing? It’s a garage nowadays but I’m sure one of you have previously mentioned what it was used for? Was it something to do with a rope business??

Anyway, as always feel free to share your thoughts. Oh, due to a little gremlin in the system yesterday, it wasn’t possible to leave a comment on the recent Lifeboat Day post …so if you been itching to share your comments you can now. Sorry about that.

If, like me, you’ve been on holiday during August then you may well have missed the jelly fish invasion. During the earlier part of August numerous Lion’s Mane jellyfish were found washed up on the beach. These stingers are the largest known species of jellyfish and are normally found in colder waters. My very limited research indicates that a sting from a Lion’s Mane is not known to be fatal and typically causes temporary pain and localised redness. I gather that they still sting you even when they’ve gone to jellyfish heaven.

I did take a walk out on the beach last week with the dog and we did manage to find and take a photo of one, but the above photo taken by Micheline Robinson is much better than mine.

Work has commenced on the redevelopment of The Kings Gap Hotel. The function suite to the rear of the building is now being demolished and hoardings are currently being put up around the rear of the site.

After being on holiday I’ll be catching up with the local goings-on over the next couple of days… so expect a Hoylake news report early next week!

Not a view taken in by that many …the rear of The Quadrant buildings. I know that some of the buildings now contain flats, but years ago what is just office space? There is some construction work on the go at the moment in the old auction house – hence the building site appearance.

For those of you who are reading this today …I hope you’re having a lovely, jinx-free Friday 13th! I scheduled this post the other day and today I’ll hopefully be sat on a lovely sunny beach in southern France

Catch you all next week!

Many thanks to Carl Watson for today’s Friday Photo. Something a little different too but still very relevant to Hoylake. Carl says:

I wondered if anyone recognised any of these once young ladies? Taken about, I think, 1962, at a Hoylake Photo scociety “do”, on the stage of the town hall, if I remember right, with a borrowed dinghy as a prop, and a nice painted backdrop. I wasn’t a very good photographer in those days.

Do you recognise any of these three lovely ladies? Do you remember the actual photo shoot or other similar ones held at the old Town Hall? Look forward to hearing your thoughts!