Comments on: Friday Photo: Big Old Building

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:16:57 +0000

Hi Sue,The childrens home was called Brynmor,it was for girls age 11 to 17,i was in thier 76 to 78,it was number 32 and is now flats.Deb

By: judith irvine

judith irvine — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:30:27 +0000

Ellen Gonner was the building which is now Hilbre Court and the whole of that block between Trinity and Clydesdale Roads. I think youngsters were sent to recover and take the air after being ill. The beds used to be pushed out onto the verandhas , later in the 70`s i think you are correct it was a council run home for girls.

By: Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:29:50 +0000

Hi Brian,

Yes, I remember Chris well, the action at the chute was deliberate! When he didn’t use the chute and occasionally shovelled the coke with a huge shovel he always managed to get coke over the back of the sack so you got cinders in your shoes. The same fellow could be equally as awkward when he decanted the creosote in bottles, if the creosote didn’t drip on the bottle first up he would push you out of the way before the faucet stopped dripping.

By: brian nesbitt

brian nesbitt — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:01:48 +0000

Hi Mike, Those were the days, when you could walk down to the beach bare footed and the sun would be so hot on the pavement it would burn the bottoms of your feet ,what happened to those Hoylake summers. But can you remember the winter time when we all had coal and coke fires,That was the time I earned my pocket money by going to the gas works every Saturday morning for bags of coke for different people,I had a old pram that I used to transport the coke in, five trips would make me about 2shillings and 6pence,if you ever went for coke mike you know that you had to hold your coke sack under a hopper while the guy pulled on a lever to fill the sack and the coke would come down the hopper with such force it would sometimes pull the sack from your hands,The guy whose name was chris wasn’t the nicest of guys and he would say “your mum needs to feed you up a bit more son then you might be able to hold the – - – sack.

By: Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:38:46 +0000

Hi Brian, your comments rekindle memories of the beach in those days, I would spend most of the School holidays at the canoe pool with Joe Cullen from putting the boats in the water of a morning and pulling them out at night plus two or three trips to Joe’s house in Lee Road for a pop bottle of tea. Joe would slip me 9 pence at the end of the day so on the face of it you did quite well.

By: Sue V

Sue V — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:18:29 +0000

Hi Brian
Certainly I remember the rope works- we lived directly opposite. In that building was an amazing stable block, beautifully tiled with decorative tiles- green as I recall. It was very difficult to get in there- but at some stage we got over the wall!!
That whole area has altered so much- we lived just 2 houses up from the Winter Gardens- now a nursing home I think.

I’ve not been back to Hoylake for about 6 years but even then it was becoming unrecognisable- and the promenade area in particular. When the Baths went it all seemed to change.

Sue

By: brian nesbitt

brian nesbitt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:20:07 +0000

To sue V, Thanks for the information sue, I remember a few of the houses also selling teas to visitors,even selling just hot water so they could make their own tea, At the bottom of trinity road by the slipway the Hoylake UDC used to have the deck chairs stacked ready for all the visitors,a guy named mr Lawler was in charge of taking the money for the chairs,he knew the local lads and he would give us 6d if we would go up and down the beach collecting in the deck chairs for him after the visitors had gone,then we would have to throw a big green canvas over them and tie the canvas down with rope,I think he got his money’s worth out of us don’t you because it used to take us about 2hrs,but it would buy us a ice cream from the guy who used to peddle the bike with a small fridge on the front full of ice cream and lolly’s, he must have had legs like a mountain climber to peddle that bike.did you know there used to be a rope factory at the bottom of Alderley Road.

By: Sue V

Sue V — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:03:02 +0000

I seem to remember “Uncle Stan” was the name connected with the church services on Hoylake shore. I certainly remember the Punch and Judy but not the name of the people who ran it. Somewhere in the depths of my memory I recall that there was a family called Codman who were connected with Punch and Judy in Liverpool- maybe it was something to do with them?
I also remember how very crowded the shore got and the the long queues to get into Hoylake baths- didn’t they close at lunch time so you had to queue again in the afternoon. Does anyone remember “Baileys” at the bottom of Governement road- they used to sell trays of tea for holidaymakers to take onto the sands. My parents had a guest house in Alderley Road and the bulk of the summer holiday makers in the ’50s were from Liverpool, come to spend a week in sunny Hoylake!!
Sue

By: brian nesbitt

brian nesbitt — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:21:20 +0000

I have lived in Florida now for many years but still think of how Hoylake was in days gone by, I was born in Hoylake in 1938 and used to live in the old fishermens cottages in Back-Sea-View, I remember during the war years hearing the bombs dropping and being rushed to the nearby air-raid shelter which was situated in the grove not far from the Plasterers Arms which was managed at the time by mr Bill Rainford and his wife Maude, My school holidays [late 40s early 50s] were spent mostly on Hoylake shore,the summers were hot and the day trippers were many ,I remember some times especially on a sunday it was nearly impossible to get onto the sand for people,Them days we used to have Punch and Judy shows and Sunday church services were held on the beach,can anyone remember the name of the people who ran the services,if anyone has any old photos of this area please contact my sister Joan who works at Hoylake Co-oP ThankYou.

By: arthur roberts

arthur roberts — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:36:00 +0000

hi brian
yes long time past , the little cottage was “the nook” it was my great antie emms, mum & i
lived with nan& pop peers at 54 trinity rd. muns name was mona.do you remenber dave cardwell?
back in 1959 i was on “jankers” in a dining room” in aldershot, when dave walked in,we only had time say hello goodby ,how did he get in? remenber he was run over by one those army trucks
when the “wirral horn” was an army garage and he was left with a arm that was bent?
was it you that dropped a brick on my head when we were playing on the grove