Comments on: Friday Photo: Hoylake YMCA

By: Shona

Shona — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:38:55 +0000

I worked at Finnigans for Frank Sheridan (jeez I was 15 or 16 when I started there), I used to start work at 4pm to get prepped for the evenings events complete with floppy white hat like a maid haha & I’d finally get home at 4am after serving all the late nighters with their ribs & chips. Can’t believe Liam (the best steak chef ever!) has sadly passed away.

By: Don Johnson

Don Johnson — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:59:02 +0000

I started a Rhythmic Gymnastic club at Hoylake YMCA in about May 1971 but then we were told that the building was closing and we had to find somewhere else. In Sept 1971 we moved to the gymnasium of West Kirby Girls Grammar School, where we stayed for about 6 years.

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Hoylake YMCA dances | Hoylake Junction — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:54:25 +0000

[...] was fascinated to see the two images of Hoylake YMCA on Hoylake Junction because during my part studies into dance bands on the Wirral I have come [...]

By: Leo Simmons

Leo Simmons — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:39:02 +0000

My memories of this building are mostly of standing outside in the early and mid 70s while waiting for the Crosville bus for school in Greasby…an old cast iron(?) bus shelter with many holes that were betrayed every time the rain fell…on dry days there wasn’t much else to look at except the old YMCA building and at the age of 8 or 9 wonder what the letters stood for!

By: John

John — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:40:23 +0000

well at one point in time that wine bar opposite The Punch Bowl was called Streets. I think it was also called another name …maybe Clowns …but I’m struggling to remember!

By: Nick R

Nick R — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:30:52 +0000

I worked at Finnegans both in the bar and building the infamous Finniland. The owner was actually called Frank Sheridan and I think calling him a ‘remarkable character’ is probably the nicest way of describing him – not wanting to speak ill of the dead you understand! I’m trying to recall the wine bar further down Market Street, opposite the Punchbowl, it was upstairs but I can’t recall the name………?

By: Friday Photo: Here Once Stood | Hoylake Junction

Friday Photo: Here Once Stood | Hoylake Junction — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:56:17 +0000

[...] Of course this was the site of the old Hoylake YMCA and there were many comments about the YMCA in this post. [...]

By: John

John — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:05:30 +0000

Hello John – thanks for your comment!

That’s really interesting and solves another query about Hoylake.

Thanks

John

By: John Hall

John Hall — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:15:33 +0000

With reference to your article on “The Mortuary”. (4th April 2010) It was situated in Carr Lane, on the left, a short distance from the “Manweb” entrance ( Just before the right hand bend). There were tables for three bodies, and a “veiwing gallery”. The building was small (a single room) and had a pitched roof and stood in its own grounds.
I came to Hoylake in 1960 as a young Police Officer in the Cheshire Constabulary, and at that time we were also Coroners Officrs and as such we had to attend postmortems, when the deceased doctor could not issued a death certificate. In my time as a Pc in Hoylake I have witnessed very many posrmortems performed in the Hoylake Mortuary mostly conducted by a Doctor McLean from Clatterbridge Hospital.
Sadly another “piece of old Hoylake” has been demolished.

By: Charles Morris

Charles Morris — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:26:03 +0000

The Hoylake Institute hosted a cinema from 1912 to 1916 and spasmodically thereafter. It was also occasionally a venue for ‘Concert Parties’ (a popular entertainment up to the second world war)and staged local pantomimes annually for many years.