Click image for larger version. Many thanks to Syd Bird for another gem from his archives. Here we have the gentlemen of Hoylake Cycling Club (if there was such a club?) posing for a photo outside … [Read more...]

(click image for larger) Many thanks to Syd Bird for the above photo, taken no earlier than 1900 as you can see St Hildeburgh's Church in the background. Pictured are a group of golfers on the … [Read more...]

Today's the date for this weeks Friday Photo as pictured above are the men installing new apparatus and surfacing in Grove Park this morning. The chaps didn't mind me snapping them at work once I … [Read more...]

Not quite a photo for you today but a scan of a cover of an RNLI Open Day programme from 1982. Purely by chance I spotted the programme on ebay last week. I won the auction at great expense. … [Read more...]

While there's still presumably quite a lot of work to complete before a Spring 2012 opening, the revamped Kings Gap Hotel is very much starting to take shape. I'd imagine that they'll start recruiting … [Read more...]

Pictured above is the grave of John O'Neill VC MM at Hoylake Cemetery, Trinity Road. The photograph was taken exactly six years ago in 2005 when the Chairman of the Leinster Regiment Association … [Read more...]

Here's one we prepared earlier. And the one below is when we set it on fire! Yes, it was the Hoylake Sailing Club bonfire earlier this evening and my not-so-great photo below attempts to capture … [Read more...]

Here's another old image courtesy of Syd Bird. Pictured are a group of Hoylake fishermen down at the bottom of Trinity Road. I'd suggest that the building behind them is the former Fellowship … [Read more...]

Do you remember these two semi-detached houses that once stood opposite the Green Lodge car park in Kings Gap? These attractive Victorian houses were purchased and then, a long time later, … [Read more...]

Many thanks to Richard Davies for sending in the above of photo the rails being replaced on the Merseyrail West Kirby line. New track is being laid with wooden sleepers being replaced with … [Read more...]