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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

Happy New Year :) I hope you all enjoyed Christmas and New Year and are looking forward to whatever the twenty tens may bring! I wonder what we'll see happening in Hoylake over the next … [Read more...]

New HoylakeJunction.com reader Frank Blakeway has sent in some old photos and also asks a question. Firstly, Frank has sent me these old photos (1940's) of the donkey rides down on Hoylake beach. … [Read more...]

I've been struggling to find something for this week's Friday Photo so I'd thought I'd offer you something different. Earlier in the year Pat Ireland lent me a copy of a really old (circa 1900) … [Read more...]

I was searching for some images earlier when I stumbled upon this old Hoylake railway sign. Apparently such signs are called totems and this Hoylake one was used when the station belonged to British … [Read more...]