Comments on: Friday Photo: Big Old Building

By: jackie

jackie — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:31:45 +0000

I can assure you this building was for the Blind, on the opposite corner was the Ellen Gonner and the nurses brought the children out for walks and playtime on the shore when I was a child.
Next door to the Ellen Gonner was Brynmor which was a children’s home.

By: sue mc cann

sue mc cann — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:06:07 +0000

hi jackie… i am somewhat confused………………. i can remember quite clearly staying at the above place as per above photo, when i was 11 i was sent there for l month due to illness…………………… the fire brigade office gave me this building and they called it the Ellen Gunner….. do you have the exact name for it.

thanks. sue.

By: sue mc cann

sue mc cann — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:03:18 +0000

hi brian…. i visited hoylake two weeks ago, and the fire department gave me the location of the childrens home for sick children, the above photograph was the place they said….. apparently it seems, a place called Brynmor which was on the opposite side of the road was the home i apparently stayed in in the 1960s , do you know where to get any photos of Brynmor.

thanks. sue.

By: Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:45:16 +0000

So do I for many reasons!!

By: Stu Rankin

Stu Rankin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:47:36 +0000

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Friday Photo: Hoylake fishermen | HoylakeJunction.com — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:06:33 +0000

[...] down at the bottom of Trinity Road. I’d suggest that the building behind them is the former Fellowship House for the blind (the big purple coloured building that’s there [...]

By: jackie

jackie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:49:16 +0000

I hate to disagree but this picture was Fellowship House for the Blind and is now Independent Living for the Young Disabled, recently reurbished and opened.
The opposite Corner a large Flats Complex was the Ellen Gonner Home where children came for Convalescence.
I have lived here all my life and remember it well!!!

By: Stu Rankin

Stu Rankin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:25:48 +0000

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By: sue mc cann

sue mc cann — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:29:21 +0000

Hi, the photograph above is indeed the Ellen Gonner home, i clearly remember it, and have asked at the information centre within the Lifeboat company on the beach……………………………… i went there around 1958 or 1959 cant remember whether i was 11 or 12………………….. how can i trace my name on any records to get the exact date and year.

Thanks. sue.

By: Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:40:20 +0000

I recall the sand services held by the paddling pool were conducted by a South African named Stan Foord. When I see photo’s of the drinking fountain it conjures up memories of those happy childhood days.