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Comment on Hoylake Train Station Sign by John

John — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:25:25 +0000

Hi Neil

That’d be great thanks! I did email you with contact details …maybe it went in your spam folder?

My email address (without the zz’s etc) is zzjohnzz (at) zzupthejunction.com

Comment on Hoylake Train Station Sign by Neil Carver

Neil Carver — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:11:33 +0000

I’ve a photie of a steam train at Hoylake. There are no live rails shown, so it must be pre 1938. (How do I how it on your site?)

Comment on Lifeboat Station Official Opening Ceremony by Reindeer Run 10K Knowsley | Running Outside

Reindeer Run 10K Knowsley | Running Outside — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:22:17 +0000

[...] the Reindeer Run, it was a charity event for the RNLI and more specifically our new lifeboat station. Reindeer Run ‘cos it’s close to Christmas I guess and we were all given cardboard [...]

Comment on Hoylake Library To Close? by emily

emily — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:27:11 +0000

we would be gutted to see the closure of Hoylake library. for us, it contributes towards the “community” feel of the area. whilst we don’t visit on a weekly basis, it is an amenity that children and adults alike would be lost without. we regularly use it for not only reading material but internet access, printing etc. Would we travel to w kirby just to visit the library - probably not. remember, you dont know what you’ve got until its gone!

Comment on New Kings Gap Hotel by Kings Gap Hotel Plans Approved | HoylakeJunction.com

Kings Gap Hotel Plans Approved | HoylakeJunction.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:32:36 +0000

[...] previously mentioned here and here that developers have plans for a multi-million pound redevelopment of Hoylake’s [...]

Comment on Lifeboat Station Official Opening Ceremony by Richard

Richard — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:10:07 +0000

…does anyone have pictures of the lovely old red-brick building?

Comment on Water Fountain Is Back by More Photos Of Hoylake Water Fountain | HoylakeJunction.com

More Photos Of Hoylake Water Fountain | HoylakeJunction.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:44:29 +0000

[...] to my post about a fortnight ago the remaining pieces of the water fountain have now been installed (it was [...]

Comment on Water Fountain Is Back by Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:39:07 +0000

Interested to hear that more bits of the fountain atre to come - I hope the plaque ‘To the children of Hoylake and Meols’ is reinstated; I always liked that when I was a boy! And I remember drinking without ill effect from it but the tap was usually vandalised so the cvouncil gave up on it. Fascinating to know the colour scheme is the original. I guess well done to the council for actually doing something after so many years of neglect by them. What I wonder prompted them?

Yes, I remember the plaque. It used to be fully exposed after a really high tide with a gale behind scoured the sand back to the foundations of the prom. I doubt it’s been seen for quite a few years now. It’s by the lifebopat slipway (Sailing Club side). Worth an archaeological dig to check up on it……!

Comment on Water Fountain Is Back by Richard Lynch

Richard Lynch — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:27:19 +0000

Yes, no doubt the deadly cholera outbreak of 1978 was in large part due to contaminated water from the fountain, and of course the ice-floes on Hoylake beach seen during the exceptionally cold winter of 1963, and which caused multiple shattered limbs, were in large part caused by fresh-water leaking from a pipe in the fountain burst by the extreme cold….

Oh, isn’t the present blame culture a load of absolute bol?#ocks! The fountain was a real curiosity when I moved to Meols (or Hoylake? Saxon Rd!) in the 1970s.

Does anyone remember the ‘plaque’ set into the sea-wall near the end of Trinity Rd commemorating the opening of the Prom in 1899 (I think)? Covered by sand last time I looked.

Comment on Water Fountain Is Back by John

John — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:28:27 +0000

I gather the “innards” are being installed soon - weather permitting I guess.