As we’ve had some discussion over the whereabouts of the jetties on the beach here’s another old photo showing the Trinity Road jetty. Ian Davies kindly sent in the photo of a launching of an old Hoylake lifeboat in the 1930s. The jetty can obviously be seen in the background, behind that impressive looking tractor.
Ian Powers suggests that the jetty was quite a substantial structure and was quite possibly made from old railway sleepers. Ian sent in this small photo taken in the 1930s of family relatives posing on the jetty. From the angles of these two photos it looks like the jetty went out along the sand quite a bit.
And to complete a hattrick of beach related photographs this week follow the link to see a super photo of the submerged forest and Smuggler’s Cottage at Meols.
Interesting that the tracks of the lifeboat are running from Trinity Road, rather than (old) lifeboat station. Also, considering that the photograph was taken from the prom (above the onlooking crowd), it’d be relatively easy to gauge where the end of the Jetty, hence the ‘Pool’ someone suggested, was.
It would only take a JCB a couple of minutes to scrape away the decades to reveal the sleeping sleepers.
Who has a JCB in Hoylake and is free on Sunday, any offers?
I think when the jetty was removed they took the whole lot so i dont think you would find much. When we used to play on the beach in the fifties the top of the jetty was rotting away, there were big gaps between the planks that we had to jump over, it got very dangerous.