News Roundup: 25th June 2010

A few items of Hoylake news for all starting off with an update to the Cumpsty & Miller photo that I published in May. I must thank Pat Ireland and George Shone – Mr Cumpsty’s grandson – for the above photo of the aforementioned shop. Mr Cumpsty is the chap in the plus-fours on the right.
Thanks [...]

Spartina Grass Strimming

Two council workers were down on the beach this morning at 8am strimming the resurgent spartina grass.
A few weeks ago the grass didn’t look too healthy, but more recently it’s been looking very green and is probably spreading along the sand. The grass is most prevalent to the left of the lifeboat station but you’ll [...]

Candy Cabs Filming In Hoylake

The BBC are back in town again! Not for a 3 Sisters follow-up but for filming of a new comedy called Candy Cabs. The show will star Claire Sweeney (formerly Brookside) and Jo Joyner (formerly Eastenders) amongst others and is presumably about a cab company.
Filming has been taking place on North Parade and I think they’ll [...]

Three Of The Sea

Last December my mobile phone died on me so I had to buy a new one. I chose a fairly simple one as a replacement but it does a camera that I now use to take a few snaps when I’m out and about. Here are three photos relating to the (Irish) sea taken with [...]

3 Sisters – Your Thoughts Please

So, did you watch Mary Queen of Shops tonight on BBC2 featuring Hoylake’s green grocers 3 Sisters (also discussed here)?
Sorry if you’ve been having trouble accessing Hoylake Junction …the site crashed for around 20 minutes or so, presumably due to the volume of visitors.
Anyways, feel free to have your say in the comments below – [...]

Spall Goes Sailing By

Well known actor Timothy Spall went sailing past the coastline of Hoylake yesterday.
Spall and his wife Shane are sailing a converted dutch barge called Princess Matilda (named after their granddaughter) and are slowly navigating their way around the UK coastline (I think). The barge was a present to himself for getting through leukemia about four [...]

Museum Plans For Lifeboat Station

Rumours of the old lifeboat station being sold for commercial storage purposes may be true, but the future use of the old building is far from certain.
There are still hopes to turn the empty building in to a lifeboat museum, though funding the project is an obvious issue.
Full report on the latest developments in this [...]

News & Events Roundup

If you’ve been watching the new series of Mary, Queen of Shops you’ll no doubt be interested to hear that the episode featuring Hoylake’s 3 Sisters Grocery is scheduled to be broadcast on 21st June, 9pm on BBC2. It’ll be very interesting to see Market Street and it’s locals on national TV.
Local singer-songwriter Caroline England [...]

Hoylake RNLI Detonate Old Bomb

Hoylake RNLI crew member Ian Davies sends in a report of dredged up WW2 bomb:
After the dredger WD Mersey picked up a suspicious looking object, a call was made to Liverpool Coastguard and the Royal Navy’s bomb disposal team. The WD Mersey was working in the Queens channel in the approaches to the port of [...]

Hoylake Featured In BBC Panorama

Many thanks to Peter Wilson for alerting me to the recent BBC Panorama programme that features Hoylake Library.
If you click the image you should load the BBC iplayer version of the programme at the correct point.

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