Hoylake Lifeboat Hoax Call

Ian Davies (Hoylake RNLI) sends in news of a final refit for The Lady Of Hilbre and a hoax call.
On 31/01/2010 as Hoylake Lifeboat The Lady of Hilbre was launched to undertake a passage to Holyhead for a refit, her replacement also a Mersey class RNLI Lifeboat Royal Shipwright was just entering Hoylake Lifeboats patch, [...]

Hoylake 1810 Memorial Fund

It has been announced that an inaugural Service of Remembrance is to be held at Hoylake Lifeboat Station on Tuesday 22nd December 2009 at 11.00a.m (all are welcome to attend).
The Service is to be led by The Rev’d Martin Flowerdew Vicar of Hoylake and Lifeboat Chaplain. Music to be provided by Port Sunlight Lyceum Brass. [...]

Ellan Vannin Memorial Service

Ian Davies, a crew member at Hoylake RNLI and a regular contributor here at HoylakeJunction.com has been in touch to let us all know about a memorial service taking place this week that has links to Hoylake.
(Ellan Vannin  is Manx for Isle of Man)
Ian says:
[there is]  a memorial service taking place this Thursday (3rd December) [...]

Lifeboat In Sand

I happened to be driving along the prom yesterday lunchtime when I spotted the Lady Of Hilbre lifeboat sat in the sand. But she wasn’t beached …it looked like the crew were testing out a launch and recovery rig/trailer type thing (excuse my poor nautical knowledge).
Somewhat larger than the other boat that’s still sat in [...]

Lifeboat Appeal

The above letter dropped through our letterbox this morning and presumably did so through many others. The appeal is for the funding of a replacement lifeboat. The aim is to replace the current boat Lady Of Hilbre with a more modern and importantly, faster boat. The latest class of boat are capable of speeds of [...]

Half-mast Flags At Station

Brian Smith has been in touch to mention if you’ve noticed the flags at the new Hoylake RNLI station flying at half mast? Brian believes it is in respect for the late Reverend Richards, Chaplain of Hoylake RNLI and a local vicar from Hoylake.
Can anyone offer any more information please?
[UPDATE]: 5th June, I emailed Hoylake [...]

Hoylake Lifeboat Has New Home

This Saturday morning (7th February, 2009) saw the arrival of the Hoylake lifeboat (The Lady of Hilbre) at her new home in the recently constructed state-of-the-art station.
A decent crowd of on-lookers, amateur photographers and would-be local blog publishers (that’ll be me then!) turned out to welcome the boat and her crew on a bright, cool [...]

Lifeboat Station Official Opening Ceremony

We walked around to the new lifeboat station last Saturday afternoon (1st November) to watch the official opening at 2pm. Tried to stress to our two young daughters that they were actually watching a significant event in Hoylake’s local history !
The invited guests were gathered inside the temporary fencing and a fair sized crowd had [...]

The Scaffolding Is Down

I’ve got a photo to upload but it’s worthy of a mention that the scaffolding is now mostly down on our new lifeboat station. Resplendent with it’s copper roof (more than few quids worth there I imagine) the building is now making it’s mark as it where.
I’ll see if can pop round over the weekend [...]

Brickies Just About Finished

Apologies for the lack of blog posts recently – time is a precious resource… a bit like petrol!
Anyways, I gather that the brickies are just about finished on the new lifeboat station. Northern Brickworks, working for the main subcontractors Harry Faircloughs have stated that they are near completion now on the brickwork for the new [...]

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