• Home
  • About
  • Resources
  • Get Involved

Hoylake Junction

Hoylake News, Views and much more!

ved banner
  • Browse
    • Arts
    • Events
    • Featured Photos
    • Lifeboat
    • Magazine
    • News
    • Places
    • Sport
  • Contact
  • December 11, 2019
You are here: Home / Featured Photos / Friday Photo: Victory Parade

Friday Photo: Victory Parade

April 5, 2013 By John 6 Comments

Hoylake-Victory-Parade

*click for larger

Many thanks to Gerry Mort for this rare image of a WWII Victory Parade marching along Market Street. Gerry sent in the image in response to my request last week for more photos of wartime Hoylake. Commenting on this week’s photo, Gerry says:

This is a photo of the police contingent taking part in the Victory Parade passed the Council Offices in 1945. The person taking the salute can be seen holding a top hat. My father Charles Mort, is the sergeant leading the parade. The police officer in the centre of the front rank is Bill Reeves who lived in Elm Terrace and was the father of Jackie Reeves. The boy on the bicycle was the son of a police officer called Barker (I think).

Can you make out the sign to the shop in the background …I’m fairly sure it says Wine Merchants? That’s quite a coincidence as the same shop was recently Hoylake Wines and before that it was a Threshers off-licence for several years.

Filed Under: Featured Photos

Comments

  1. Jackie says

    April 6, 2013 at 7:29 am

    I have a similar picture to this kept by Dad, Bill Reeves, and I wondered if Selwyn Lloyd took the Salute., but coming the other way down Market street.
    Was the Wine Merchants Mackie and Gladstone?

    Reply
  2. Sue says

    April 6, 2013 at 6:52 pm

    Mackie and Gladstone sounds right to me. Hope I might see you on 23 rd Jackie.
    Am trying to get a contact for Rob Lydiate- can anyone help??

    Reply
    • jackie hall says

      April 7, 2013 at 2:53 pm

      Will put a note through his door.

      Reply
  3. helen carr says

    April 8, 2013 at 12:14 pm

    The first shop just behind the crowd was Josephine Taylers Ladies Fashion Shop a very high class ladies shop. I remember buying a navy blue suit there once when I got engaged it was made out off moygashel fabric. Does anyone remember that material, it used to crease like mad.
    Helen Carr

    Reply
  4. John says

    April 9, 2013 at 8:31 am

    Victoria Doran comments:

    The off licence was Mackies – it was there thru the 50s & 60s as well

    Reply
  5. helen carr says

    April 11, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    My mother took me to the Victory Parade I was not quite five years old. I remember some people standing on the little balcony over the Town Hall. V.J. day had not happened then and my father was a prisoner off the Japanese on the island off Taiwan[Formosa] he did not come home untill the following January 1946

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Welcome to Hoylake!

We're all about Hoylake, Wirral here - thanks for visiting! You'll find news, information, photos and much more. Please feel free to comment on any of the items or feel free to get in touch.

Promote Your Business

Want to get your business seen by thousands of people every month? Why not place an advert here on HoylakeJunction! Get in touch today and start putting your local business in front of potential local customers.

Follow Us:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter

What You’ve Been Saying:

  • Rosaleen McKay on Friday Photo: Lake Place Cottages
  • Liz on Friday Photo: Lake Place Cottages
  • Andy on Friday Photo: Coastguard Cottages
  • Wendy mitchell on Friday Photo: Coastguard Cottages
  • Andy taylor on Friday Photo: Coastguard Cottages
  • Andy taylor on Friday Photo: Coastguard Cottages
eh

Copyright © 2019 hoylakejunction.com · Published by upthejunction.com · Privacy Policy · Sitemap

This site uses cookies More info