How many locals know where this Hoylake building is?
It’s called Kingdom Hall and is used by the local Jehovah’s Witnesses community. You’ll find it if you walk along the alley way that connects Chapel Road and Trinity Road. Next to this building is a yard used for storing roofing tiles and materials.
What more can you tell me about the building?
It is up the “milk entry” i used to live in Chapel Rd and it was directly behind our garden wall, it was built on the dairy site, which was there well into the 60`s all the milk floats went up the “milk entry”.
Could you hear the humm of the transformers which were used to charge up the batteries on the milk floats?
It was always very loud when i used to walk down the alley.
Ashfield Farm Dairies used the building when the Carr Lane Depot was being built.
This was the end of Ashfield Farm as they were taken over by Express Dairies when they moved to Carr Lane
Ruth Treece (Rowlands) writes:
Where the Kingdom hall now stands used to be stables which housed horses that pulled the milk cart round Hoylake in the 1940’s. The horses were harnessed up and then came a short way down the cobbled alley into Chapel Road. I lived one house away from the alley and they came down there at 6am every morning except Good Friday and Christmas Day. The noise of the horses and the crates full of glass bottles was horrendous. However we got so used to it we tended to wake at 6am on the two days a year that they did not clatter down the lane.
What are times of meetings ?