Comments on: Friday Photo: Hoylake YMCA

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.

By: Richard McIntyre

Richard McIntyre — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:41:54 +0000

This question is not about the YNCA, but CO_OP 1946 to 1951. I wounder if anybody remember a butcher thier named Jack Hilton he worked their after the war until 1951, when he moved to Canada. I think he was originaly from New Brighton and lived in West Kirby after the war.
The reason I asked is he was my wifes only uncle.
Richard McIntyre

By: Chris R

Chris R — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:24:45 +0000

I was talking to my father about the 1936 Basketball team, which he remembers when he was just a young boy. One of the players was Nathaniel Langley – a few years later my father was apprenticed to Nathaniel’s father (also Nathaniel). Sadly, he recalls the basketball player died of an infected cut finger when working at Cammell Laird’s during the war, and Nathaniel’s brother Joe died just 10 months later of rheumatic fever.

By: ian Horrocks

ian Horrocks — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:56:30 +0000

Finniland was still there in 1993 when I moved to Hoylake.

I think it had just been closed down by the council as it was built without planning permission.

Finnigan died 8 or 9 years ago. His best mate Little Irish Ian died last month.

both ‘remarkable’ local characters !

By: Syd Bird

Syd Bird — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:58:24 +0000

Hello Ian,
it`s a bit of a mystery to me how my father came to have the nickname of Yannee. As is always the way of things I never asked my mother about the nickname of my father and how it came to be . As his middle name was Sydney I wonder if it`s in some way a shortened version of that. I know that he was always known by his nickname, I have a copy of the Hoylake Advertiser from 1941 which contains a report of his funeral and the name Yannee is used consistently,
Regards,
Syd

By: Ian P

Ian P — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:21:23 +0000

Ahh, just seen the other post which answers the above, but still mystified about the knickname – Syd, can you help?

By: Ian P

Ian P — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:18:00 +0000

Shame there are no pre-demolition photos of the YMCA, I found a wife there and my mother in law bought one of the retirement flats and lived on the very spot where I first met her daughter!
The stairs which were added to the right of the main door were obviously an emergency exit needed as the only other exit was at the back of the building. They also provided the secretary with an office. There was a bay window in the main hall window, I housed my spotlights there for the annual panto. (anyone know where they went? I left them there when I moved). Also missing in the photo, the flag pole, the steel bus shelter and the ladies loo which was in Hoyle Road. Built on sand, the hall wall was slowly moving out towards Hoyle Road! Maybe that was a factor in the demise of the building.

Ref the basketball, follow the link above for interesting info about how the YMCA gave basketball to the world. My uncle Eddie told me the best player of all at Hoylake was Yanni (?) Bird, give him the ball anywhere in the oposition half and it would be in the basket. Question for Syd, was that a relative?