Comments on: Friday Photo: Old Hoylake Garage

By: Jack Ryall

Jack Ryall — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:24:56 +0000

I remeber a young man at Burnetts and I told him I wanted to buy an Audi. Two days later he got my car it was a 100LS, it cost 2000 ponds and was a lovely vehicle. I can’tthink of the guys name.

By: News Roundup: 4th March 2011 | Hoylake Junction

News Roundup: 4th March 2011 | Hoylake Junction — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:01:06 +0000

[...] There was also an old Morris Oxford dealer catalogue (I think it was) that listed both the garage on Birkenhead Road and another garage on the site of the car park behind the Green Lodge. As Nick said, if you look at [...]

By: nick dovey

nick dovey — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:50:43 +0000

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

By: Friday Photo: Carlton Terrace | Hoylake Junction

Friday Photo: Carlton Terrace | Hoylake Junction — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:33:49 +0000

[...] old photo of Carlton Terrace. A few readers have commented on a previous Friday Photo of the old Burnetts Garage and today’s photo follows on rather [...]

By: nick dovey

nick dovey — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:17:28 +0000

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.

By: Sarah Shirley

Sarah Shirley — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:25:54 +0000

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.

By: Syd Bird

Syd Bird — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:49:19 +0000

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.

By: Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:50:33 +0000

Sarah, I wondered the same! See the answer in the thread above.

By: Sarah Shirley

Sarah Shirley — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:14:46 +0000

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

By: Peter Reisdorf

Peter Reisdorf — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:57:13 +0000

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