Friday Photo: Old Hoylake Garage
February 12, 2010 by John · 12 Comments
Thanks to Ian Powers for sending in a photo of the old Burnetts Garage …I was hoping someone would have a photo of this old place.
Located on the corner of Birkenhead Road and Sandringham Avenue, opposite Deneshey Road, this old garage must have been around until sometime in the 80’s. There is a petrol station on the site now of course.
Ian says:
Here’s a photo of Burnett & Co Garage opposite the cottage hospital. I took them some time in the 80s.
It was there in the 50’s, and used to serve petrol (Mobil – I cadged a prancing horse key ring from the man). The pumps had cantilever arms which swung over the pavement to fill the cars as they stood in the road. The road surface was re-laid in the early 50s with proper tarmac compressed by a Barber Greene machine. However they refused to do the area in front of Burnett’s as that bit of road was considered to be used for commercial purposes and I guess Burnett & Co refused to pay. (Later road treatments just seemed to be spraying everywhere with tar and throwing loose chippings on top –very bad news for your paintwork!)
Was it always a garage?
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Burnetts Garage alive and well and on the Carr Lane Ind Est, we have photograph’s of the building on B’head Rd dating 1920’s, also an accounts journal listing everything from the purchase of the land, through the building cost’s to the purchase of all the internal equipment including a mop and bucket.
Visit our web site http://www.burnettsgarage.co.uk for a brief history and some photo’s. One with sand dunes which is now Deneshey Road. Also it’s not myself and Dave Hirst pictured in the workshop photo. Would love a copy of the photo shown on your website.
Nick Dovey
Just visited Burnett’s website and in addition to the fascinating sight of the garage set amongst sand dunes is the lighthouse-like viewing tower above one of the houses on Carlton Terrace! Never seen a picture of that before or heard of it. Does anyone know the history?
building in this picture was I believe a sanitorium and the building was purchased by Jack Dore in approximately 1962. The gardens were cleared and this became the forecourt of the revamped Burnetts Garage in 1963. Origially you could see newer tiling on the roof where the viewing extention was cleared.
Behind this building was an isolation hospital belonging to the Cottage Hospital probably used for victims of TB which land was purchased by Kingsmead School.
Fascinating, never knew any of that but have always thought it a great shame that the front gardens of this end of Carlton Terrace had been lost.
I used to go to the old Burnetts garage in the early 80s when I had a two stroke BSA motorbike that had the two stroke oil mixed directly with the petrol in the tank (modern bikes, even most bikes then, mix the oil and petrol in the carburettor or injector). Burnetts still had one of the old style dispensers where you set the correct ratio of oil to petrol, 1 to 32 or 1 to 20 or whatever, and it would inject the correct amount of oil for one gallon of petrol straight into the petrol tank.
Peter Reisdorf
This is an old thread so I don’t know if anyone will read this but I am looking to find out some infomation about my house. It is the one just out of shot in the photo behing the garage (now behind the petrol station). In the photo on Burnetts website it shows the house and appears to show it with a turret. Clearly there is no turret there and because it is only in the background of the photo it could be misleading. I would love to hear anything people might know about this and any photos going back through the years would be great to look at.
Sarah Shirley
Sarah, I wondered the same! See the answer in the thread above.
Hello Sarah , I take it you are living in one houses which form part of Carlton Terrace . Carlton Terrace appears on the Ordnance Survey map published in 1871,also I have an old photo of Birkenhead Road with Carlton Terrace very prominently featured . It must have been taken in the early part of the last century as there are hardly any other houses to be seen and Birkenhead Road looking towards Meols just looks like a country lane (definitely no cars in sight!) . I will send a copy to John C and perhaps he may want to publish it on his Hoylake Junction site sometime in the future.
It would be great if you could send that photo in, I for one would love to see it. The more I see of these old photos the more interested I get.
I would also like to see those photo’s as well, it is becoming quite fascinating as this builds from a simple initial photograph. If anybody has any more images of Burnetts Garage I would love to see them, as well as any information about a further workshop in the Green Lodge car park. We Have a service book that came with a new car listing two branches of Burnetts Garage. I have seen markings on the outer car park wall which suggest a building was there.
For all comments on this site no one has mentioned the clock on top of the
fuel station hut, a place you had to pay or sign for your petrol the clock was better timed than the town hall clock, I was very lucky to survive the loss of the the clock when in a major winds factor the clock was sent crashing down just in front of me. any photos please. nick dovey