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Friday Photo: The Royal Hotel

February 11, 2011 By John 21 Comments

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Finally!

Here are some photos of the long gone Royal Hotel kindly sent all the way from New Zealand by Carl Watson. I’d always presumed that the Royal Hotel was located where The Royal cul-de-sac is today, off Beach Road. As you can see the hotel was on Stanley Road, facing the Royal Liverpool golf course.

Does anyone know if the hotel offered luxurious accommodation? What happened to the old place …did it become rundown and neglected or was it sold off, demolished and the land redeveloped? Share your comments below.

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  1. Peter Wilson says

    February 11, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    Some really excellent photos, the best I’ve seen. It’s a handsome building – the architrcture is similar to the houses in Valentia Road. There’s a lot of furniture being moved. Was this a clearance sale following closure I wonder.

    What is the sign above the Bar entrance? Could it be The Locker Room?

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  2. Charles Morris says

    February 11, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    The hotel faced Stanley Road but its grounds extended to the shore. It was demolished in the Spring / Summer of 1958 (almost complete by the end of July) and the replacement houses (The Royal cul-de-sac and the handful facing Stanley Road) appeared very quickly. Some were occupied by Nov. 1959 to my certain knowledge.

    For many years there had been a number of elderly permanent residents but towards the end I think only the bar was functional. It certainly looked very run down and I’m sure its fortunes faltered from as long ago as when the Golf Club built its own clubhouse

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    • Leo Simmons says

      February 11, 2011 at 5:42 pm

      Ah Charles you have answered the question that immediately popped into my head – I was wondering when this fine old building was removed since I don`t remember it at all. The fine architecture of so many buildings along Stanley Road is a fond memory – especially since out here on the west coast of Canada we have a dearth of buildings older than one hundred years (the town I live in, for example, was effectively founded as a community in approximatley 1906). It`s wonderful to look back at my old home town and appreciate its qualities from this perspective! Fantastic archival photos!

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  3. jackie says

    February 11, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    They always had a bonfire on Bonfire Night and the parents went in the bar, while we kids enjoyed the fire.
    A well loved Hotel by the residents of Hoylake particularly when a Golf Tournament was on the The Royal Liverpool Golf Course.

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  4. Russ Moulton says

    February 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    The pictures of the Royal Hotel in Stanley Road brought back memories for me. I remember it well and recall when it was demolished and housing being constructed on the site. The Hotel was reputed to be haunted! The figure of an elderly man dressed in the fashion of the late 19th century was often claimed to have been seen walking through the hotel. The figure would pass through a doorway but would not be seen beyond that if someone followed out of curiosity.

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  5. luke berry says

    March 18, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    hi could anyone direct or tell me about The Gothic Towers that was also on stanley road really would like to know more about this house and land

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    • Peter Wilson says

      March 20, 2011 at 2:53 pm

      Hi Luke

      There is a reference to The Gothic Lodge in Stanley Road on page 8 of The King’s Gap Conservation Area Appraisal (see http://www.wirral.gov.uk/my-services/environment-and-planning/built-conservation/conservation-areas/-kings-gap) which says the house was one of those demolished and replaced in the 20s or 30s.

      The 1871 map on page 7 in The Meols Drive Conservation Area Appraisal Appendices shows a building called The Gothic Cottage on the corner of Stanley and Courtenay Roads ( see http://www.wirral.gov.uk/my-services/environment-and-planning/built-conservation/conservation-areas/meols-drive ). I assume that this is the same property as The Gothic Towers; perhaps it acquired a grander title as it was extended over the years?

      Studying the other maps indicates that the building was still there in 1909 but the present house had taken its place by 1927. The former tennis court in the gardens to the rear backing onto Barton Road was developed with an additional smaller home in the 1970s.

      Hope this helps. Would be very interesting to see a photograph of the old house.

      Peter

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  6. luke berry says

    March 20, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    Dear peter wilson thankyou this has been a great help the reason am so curious is i know the residents of the house now built on this land and gothic towers kept creeping up in conversations plus while doing some work in the garden i found very posh blue titles and very well masoned brickwork so am really curious on what the gothic towers/cottage look like, also i had some info that the gothics towers was on fire at some point ( trying to authenticate this )

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    • Peter Wilson says

      March 21, 2011 at 10:11 am

      Most interesting. Good luck with your search and do post up anything you find!

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  7. Jan Weijburg says

    August 27, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    What wonderful information. I believe my family moved into 4 the Royal (second on the right backing onto the beach) back in 1959/1960, I would have been 5 or 6 years old. I am not quite sure as I found a postcard sent to me by my father when in South America postmarked early May 1959, and this was sent to our old address in Bromborough. The house (No 4) was built for my Father by his company Land & Marine, and I believe the architect was a Dutch architect.

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    • Peter Wilson says

      August 28, 2012 at 9:28 pm

      I remember your family. My ‘best friend’, John Fox, lived at No. 3 directly opposite! The Ruddlestons were at No.1, the Meakins at the end and the Arthurson’s was the last house on the beach side.

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      • Jan Weijburg says

        August 29, 2012 at 8:28 am

        Peter,
        Correct, John Fox or Commander Fox RNR as we all knew him was also teaching at the school we (me and my 2 brothers) went to; Liverpool College. If my memory is good, I believe he had a daughter called Sally and a younger son.
        Jan Weijburg (The youngest of the three Weijburg boys)

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        • Peter Wilson says

          August 31, 2012 at 6:54 pm

          It was Commander Jack Fox, his wife Nancy and the two children were Sally and my friend John.

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          • Jan Weijburg says

            August 31, 2012 at 7:08 pm

            Peter,
            I still have fond memories of Jack Fox looking out of his bedroom window with his ex WWII German UBoat binoculars surveying the vessels coming into the Mersey. A very stately sight!
            Jan

        • Peter Wilson says

          September 1, 2012 at 12:50 pm

          Jan, I remember those binoculars very well!

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    • Charles Morris says

      August 29, 2012 at 1:46 am

      I knew a Weijburg from that address who was at Kingsmead School at that time. I think he would have been about eight in 1959 so is he your elder brother ?

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      • Jan Weijburg says

        August 29, 2012 at 8:38 am

        Charles
        I am sorry but once more correct. I believe this would be my middle brother Jaap (1950), as my elder brother Aart (1947) would have been to old.
        Jan Weijburg

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        • Charles Morris says

          August 29, 2012 at 8:47 pm

          Jan,

          Yes it was definitely Yaap whom I remember and I can also confirm that your family was living in that house by November 1959. Yaap is the only one I remember at Kingsmead; did you and your eldest brother also go there ? I recall Julian (& Lisa) Sterck lived near to you and that a lady called Anita used to give them a lift (and me sometimes) to school. I knew nothing else about her except that she was Anita and drove a Triumph Herald.

          Where are you and your brothers now, and what are you doing ?

          Charles

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  8. phil newton says

    June 28, 2016 at 6:12 pm

    My Uncle Ernest Albert Newton owned it sometime later that 1945 when he was awarded
    freeman of London.
    He was an architect [b 1898] in Rodney st L/pool
    I remember Golden wedding of my gr parents ther and 21 or Greta Newton my cousin in about 1950
    phil newton

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