I’m still attempting to clear my email mountain(s) and in doing so I’ve just been viewing some great images kindly sent to me by Ian Davies (Hoylake RNLI). There are some great old photos of Hoylake and Meols that I’ll share with you all in due course but I thought I’d start by sharing this one with you.
It’s Trinity Road from years gone by – there isn’t a date so if you’d like to hazard a guess feel free. It could well date from around 1900. You can see the Parish Church in the background and of course houses hadn’t then been built on the lefthand side of the road (the view is looking up Trinity Road from near the promenade).
What was that building in the foreground where the men are standing? It’s a garage nowadays but I’m sure one of you have previously mentioned what it was used for? Was it something to do with a rope business??
Anyway, as always feel free to share your thoughts. Oh, due to a little gremlin in the system yesterday, it wasn’t possible to leave a comment on the recent Lifeboat Day post …so if you been itching to share your comments you can now. Sorry about that.
The building where the men are standing is now the Chequered Flag garage, but it was once known as The Bethel which was mainly for the benefit of local fisherman. They had been crowded out of the Trinty Road church which you can see in the picture. It is thought that as the transport links improved to the area the poor fishermen moved their place of worship to the building at the bottom of Church Road as it was known then and they would hold their services here on a Sunday night. It was also a better location for the men to congregate as from this location they could keep an eye on their fishing boats moored in the Hoyle Lake during bad weather.
Dear Ian,
Learning from this correspondence that you are connected with the RNLI, I am wondering if you have access to the photographs which were on display 20-30 years ago in the previous lifeboat house ? There is a particular one of which I would very much like a copy.
Yours sincerely,
Charles Morris
Hi Charles,
If you can describe the picture or name someone who appears in it I will do my best to find it for you, but was it 20 – 30 years ago when you last saw it or when it was last displayed!
Ian
I think It
served as a false tooth factory for a while in the late 40s three aunts the daughters of Danny rainford my grandfather used to work part time filing the new teeth smooth I could be wrong. JOHN RAINFORD
Have you got pictures please of prospect house the mother baby house on trinity rd 1959
If you find any pictures please let me know, I have found some of the street but nothing close up
The undeveloped land across the road from the Bethel (where Avondale and other roads are now) was the gardens of a large house known as the Dale (hence Avondale). It was the home of Mr Swainson, a retired merchant who provided the money for the construction of Holy Trinity Church itself in the picture in the 1830s. There are not many pictures of the house itself around but it was quite substantial and surrounded by sandhills. It was pulled down right at the end of the nineteenth centiury when the houses were built.
My Grandad, John Washington Parr, born 1892, was a member of the Bethel choir.
My grandparents lived in the 1st 3 story house on the right hand side, my gran sold pots of tea out of the window and people took them to the beach and my grandad collected and sold cockles in the pubs. My dad was born there, he was the oldest of 13 kids… the house is still in out family…
I was brought up from birth at 53 Trinity Road, which in this picture is a sand dune on the left hand side. I lived there with my Mum, Dad and 7 siblings for 23 years, In a large 3 story house that was built at the turn of the century on the left hand side of this picture. My family also sold water and tea in the summer months and I spent most of my early life on the beach, the jetty( now gone) and the baths, also now demolished
Hello all!
We’ve just moved to 62 Trinity Road (on the corner of Back Sea View). We’ve fallen in love with Hoylake and its friendly, welcoming people.
Some of my neighbours think our house may have been a post office once upon a time. Does anyone know anything. Or have any pictures of this side of Trinity Road?
Many thanks!
Laura
Hi all
Just doing a bit of research and and have recently discovered my great great great grandparents William and Minnie lived at 13 Back Sea View and bought up their 5 children there.
Hi Natalie gunn Your grandparents must have lived at 13 back sea view before 1938 because we lived at 15 Back Sea View from 1938 to 1949 and mr and mrs webster lived at number 13 and on the other side lived Mr and Mrs Tarrant, The Houses were very small Fishermens Cottages 2 up and 2 down with a very small galley kitchen and a outside toilet at the bottom of the yard, it also had a wash house with a wash tub which was heated underneath with a fire made of paper- sticks and coal
Hi there, I wonder if you know anything of Sea View residents at the time? Trying to learn everything I can of the area! Thanks