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Friday Photo: Coastguard Cottages

John — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:51:15 +0000

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 way for the flats. You can see in the left of the photo the old Lower Lighthouse.

And here’s an artists impression of the cottages, dating from about 1900:

Anything to add? Feel free to comment of course!

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Friday Photo: A Big Lunch

John — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:11:04 +0000

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 kindly sent in the above photo, taken in Lake Road and writes:

The Lake Road Big Lunch was a big success. Residents from Strand, Marmion and Government Road were also invited along to the party. With a turn out of over 70 people, The Lake Road Ladies hope to organize another next year promising to be even bigger and better. Here is a photograph of The City Of Liverpool Pipe Band who came along to kick the celebrations off. Local singer songwriters Caroline England and Mark Roberts (his site I think) also performed.

Who’d have thought …street parties in 2010!

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Friday Photo: Hoylake Sorting Office

John — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:48:04 +0000

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 park behind. Think I might have to have a nose around the back at some point!

Has it always been owned by Royal Mail or did it have a previous life? Is it just offices upstairs? I look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments!

Photo taken back in January, 2010.

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Friday Photo: Parish Church & The Great Storm

John — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:38:27 +0000

Many thanks to Dorothy Curtis for not only sending in the above image of the old Hoylake Parish Church (demolished in the 1970’s and discussed in this post) but for also sending me copies of newspaper articles detailing the tragic loss of five Hoylake men in a storm in 1894.

The press articles are unfortunately too large for me to upload to the site. They detail an inquest in to the loss of the lives of five Hoylake fishermen:

John Eccles (Snr)
Joseph Sherlock
Joseph Rainford
Edwin Eccles
John Eccles (Jnr)

All men drowned at sea during what is described as The Great Storm of December 22nd, 1894. The bodies were found washed ashore at Southport. Sailing the fishing smacks (boats) called The Stag and The Ellen and Anne the men failed to reach land. I understand the men are buried in Hoylake Cemetery.

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Friday Photo: Alleyway

John — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:15:54 +0000

There are numerous alleyways in Hoylake and I reckon the one pictured is one of the longest. It’s the cobbled alleyway that runs between the houses on Meols Drive and Drummond Road. I took the photo back in January one Saturday afternoon; I’d been walking the dog, admiring the attractive row of terraced houses in Airlie Road before seeing the entrance to the alleyway …so down we went!

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Friday Photo: Town Hall Gardens

John — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:08:35 +0000

Here we have an old image of the Town Hall Gardens kindly sent in by Syd Bird.

These public gardens were in Albert Road, behind the Town Hall and were probably on the site of the old fire station (currently Jack Rabbits). You can make out the original fire engine house in the left of the photo.

Can you offer any additional information on these old gardens? Do you know when the fire station was constructed?

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Friday Photo: Hoylake Fishing Family

John — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:27:55 +0000

Many to Margot Triggs-Page for contributing a hat-trick (well I had to get a football reference in!) of old photographs for today’s Friday Photo. Hoylake of course was once a fishing village and some local families have their histories anchored in sea-fishing or the life boats.

As Margot writes, her family – The Triggs – were a local fishing family

[the photo above shows] my Grandfather, Julian Triggs, taken on the shore somewhere in the vicinity of Government Road and the Sailing Club sometime in the very early 1900’s. Unfortunately, I don’t have the name of the dog, but he seems to like the ride!

The above photo shows a harvest of cockles being brought ashore.

Here we can see the men emptying cockles into a sack.

I think I’m right in saying that the cockle beds are currently closed. All local cockle beds (Meols, West Kirby, Thurstaston) were closed for several years before opening again for controlled, licensed fishing a year or so ago.

I’d love to publish more local fishing photographs if anyone has any?

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Friday Photo: Here Once Stood

John — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:56:07 +0000

I took this photo back in January on a particularly cold Friday afternoon from what I remember – though there were plenty to choose from last winter!

You’ll find this plaque set in to a little brick pillar on the grass, just by the entrance to the block of retirement apartments on the corner of Hoyle Road. The plaque is a little muddy because I had to brush some old moss off it.

Of course this was the site of the old Hoylake YMCA and there were many comments about the YMCA in this post.

If the YMCA was deemed worthy of a commemorative plaque, surely the old swimming pool is deserving of one too wouldn’t you say?

Oh, if you think a couple of recent, full-size photos look a little bit narrower, it’s me and not your eyesight I’m starting to use a width of 600 pixels rather than 630 in readiness for a slight update to the layout of HoylakeJunction.

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The Hoylake Cumpsty’s

John — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:20:11 +0000

Following on from a recent Friday Photo of an old Hoylake shop called Cumpsty and Miller I’ve received this related photo.

David Cumpsty, a relation to the Cumpsty family in the original photo says:

In the photo second from the left is George Henry Cumpsty part owner of Cumpsty and Miller Store.

Don’t they all look rather dapper gentlemen?

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Friday Photo: District Council Offices

John — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:12:13 +0000

Another old view of Market Street courtesy of the Syd Bird archives.

Things to spot:

the grand street lamps
a sign for a bank where Vanilla Lounge is today
looks like those young lads are carrying laundry baskets to me
plenty of horse muck on the road!
no clock on the wall of the offices

As always, feel free to share your thoughts.

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