Fancy a 5 bed semi-detatched with large garden in an attractive road in Meols for under £8,000?
Me too! But unfortunately we’d need to travel back in time …back to 1970 in fact, when the above advert was published in a local newspaper. Many thanks to Dave Cowderoy for sending me the above press cutting.
Interesting to see the asking prices of local properties 40 years ago. I like the message at the bottom of the ad saying Substantial Mortgage Available …not quite the substantial mortgages that we see today I’d suggest.
I wonder what house prices were in earlier decades?
Re the cost of houses, our house, Invergarry, 56 Stanley Rd, cost £950 to build about 1890’s, dad bought it, as 3 flats, about 1963,or so,for £6,000, I sold it for redevelopment, about 1979. for £40,000,(Jones and Chapman), and we migrated to NZ.
We now live in the aptly named “Bay of Plenty”. Interesting to read the Hoylake news.
I bought a pile of huge 12″x4″ beams from the old Hough’s yard when they were demolishing it, to use in my restorations of Invergarry. My children went to Market st. school for several years.
Hello Carl
Nice to hear from you! I think there’s an apartment block on that site now called Invergarry Court. Each apartment would probably go for around £250,000 today.
John
You had a great swimming pool which I remember swimming in a few times as a kid! It’s now buried under remodeled sand dunes in the garden of the Invergarry Court apartments.
Carl, you will also be interested to know that Wirral Point at the bottom of Stanley Road (which was a Cheshire County Council nursing home) recently sold for obver £1 million!
Hi Peter, Duncan says he remembers you, from his class at school, and Frank Sheridan?
We visited UK in 1993, and saw the new flats on our site, my swimming pool long buried, what a waste.We got news of the sale of the old nursing homes, wasn’t one of them for the blind?
The “sad” thing about this one is another reminder of this age thing that is “creeping” up on me – ha ha – being drawn to the notice at the bottom of the advert that refers to the New Estates. I can remember the Hydro being demolished to make way for the Town Houses on the promenade at West Kirby and Prices’ farm on the Goose Green at Meols as if it were yesterday. My Mum is a resident of the care home at Caldy Manor and I pass the apartments there a couple of times a week and they certainly cost a lot more today even with a housing slump.