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Friday Photo: The Swarm

April 30, 2010 By John 17 Comments

Thought I’d surprise you all today with something a bit different – a video!

And, in less than 4 minutes you’ll get to see some great (if a little grainy) footage of some local places.

The Swarm? Well, you’ll have to wait and see. Press play 😉

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Comments

  1. ally says

    April 30, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    Absolutely brilliant! Loved it. Not from here it was really interesting to see what Hoylake and West Kirby were like 30 years ago

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  2. Gail Rochford Gilchrist says

    April 30, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    WOW!! What memories! Great little video!

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  3. Mike Scott says

    May 1, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    An excellent video!

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  4. Dave says

    May 1, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    Great to see the old place again, Jhanks John

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  5. Lynda Williams says

    May 1, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    What an interesting video, brought back lots of good memories of when Hoylake was packed in the summers gone by.

    Reply
  6. Imogen says

    May 1, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    What a great video, the pool in Hoylake looked like great fun, it is shame it is no longer there.

    Reply
  7. Syd Bird says

    May 1, 2010 at 10:18 pm

    A brilliant little video which made me think of the harsh winter of 1962/3 when amongst other things I remember Meols Pond remaining frozen until early April. Really good to see the remains of the “Emblamatic” shortly after it was removed from within the Embankment were it had been buried for many years. Thanks for sharing the memories John.

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    • Mike Scott says

      May 2, 2010 at 1:42 am

      Hi Syd, this could have been the winter Heron Road was blocked with snow drifts between the crossroads and Meols for many days.

      I find your old pics very interesting and regret disposing of mine many years ago.

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      • Syd Bird says

        May 2, 2010 at 4:34 pm

        Hello Mike,
        I think you are quite correct about Heron Road being blocked by snow drifts,I think I particularly remember Meols Pond being frozen for such a lengthy period of time was because I used to pass it every day on the train when I was working in Birkenhead, also as I worked in an office overlooking the Mersey I well remember the ice floes coming down river.
        I collected my “Old Hoylake” photos in the early 1960`s and although I moved away from Hoylake over forty years ago I always kept hold of them and now I`m really glad that I did. I think since scanning them onto the computer they have gained a new lease of life,
        Kind Regards , Syd

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      • GILL MCMAHON says

        July 29, 2010 at 11:49 pm

        I remember it well, walking across Ashton Park lake on the way to school at St Bridget’s

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  8. Ian P says

    May 2, 2010 at 11:20 am

    Great to watch. The Lifeboat I guess was Oldham III, with the Fowler tractor. Launching was done with a combination of ropes and pulleys, they unhitched the tractor and reversed it away with just a rope attached, the rope went to the back of the trailor, over a pulley and then back up to the bow of the boat. You launched the boat and as a bonus still had a line on it to allow the tractor driver to get himself on to the boat. The tractor could be sealed up watertight and then covered by the tide, the crew just had to find it when the tide went out!

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  9. Charles Morris says

    May 2, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    I remember one amazing ladybird swarm; it must have been in the mid 1970s.

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    • Peter Wilson says

      May 4, 2010 at 10:55 pm

      Yes, 1976 was I think the year of the ladybirds and the ladybirds were preceded a few days earlier by clouds of greenfly which of course are the favoured food of the ladybirds! The ladybirds apparrently flew north from France. The promenade and baths looked like someone had spilt tomato ketchup all over them. You could hear them being crushed as you drove along the prom. They formed drifts around the lamp posts and I remember scooping them up only to find that cute though they may look they also bite! Also they closed the baths due to there being so many in the water.

      After they’d eaten all the greenfly they all died!

      It really was akin to a biblical plague!

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      • GILL MCMAHON says

        July 29, 2010 at 11:51 pm

        I am sure it was 1977 I have a photo of my son David, he was 4 years old and he is covered in ladybirds at Southport. My youngest was a small baby and he was born November 1976,.

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  10. pete says

    May 5, 2010 at 9:26 am

    The lifeboat in video is the Rother class “Mary Gabriel”.

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  11. Hoylake Sherlock says

    December 11, 2010 at 11:22 pm

    Oh wow I remember the Swarm – I was in my first year at Hilbre (back on those days you had your 1st year at Hilbre in Hoylake and then you went up to West Kirby for year 2 onwards) and the playground was covered with them 🙂 Great to see the Baths too .. Happy days 🙂

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  12. joolz says

    February 2, 2014 at 1:58 am

    Fantastic video.There was a later ladybird swarm early 1990s when one summer we went to a red rocked Hilbre Island( the red being ladybirds).I distinctly remember having a packed lunch which crunched at every mouthfull as those hungry ladybirds were everywhere in every nook and crevice and when i bit into my sandwich there was a long loud crunch. The ladybirds had invaded our picnic!

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