The gates to Hoylake Cemetery are in need of repair and there is a fund that you can donate to. Both the main gates (pictured) and the single side gate are in need of urgent repairs that have been estimated at a cost of £600. Replacement gates will cost £1,100 so it makes financial sense (and we should try and fix/repair where we can) to repair what is already there.
If you would like to make a donation, perhaps in memory of a loved-one who is buried there then you can contact the Vicar, Martin Flowerdew on 632 3987 or via theblacksheep [@] tinyworld.co.uk -
Martin Flowerdew is the (relatively) new vicar at St Hildeburghs church.
If you’re not too familiar with Hoylake then you might not even know that Hoylake has a cemetery. Unless a loved-one is buried there then I suppose you might not think about having a walk around? It isn’t a place that I have any links to personally but I did take a walk around the cemetery back in January on a rather cold and frosty afternoon. Are burials still conducted here?
Did you know that the terraced houses opposite in Trinity Road were named Church View? I presume that’s because of the old chapel that was in Chapel Road? By coincidence, I’ve received a photo of that old chapel that I’ll be publishing soon.
Thanks to Matt Biagetti for alerting me to the gates appeal.
Apparently there used to be an underground tunnel from the vicarage of this cemetery to the cemetery itself. I’m pretty sure its the white house, as it looks like it could have been a vicarage years back. The BBC came to our house asking if we knew anything about this. Sounds exciting if they find it!
Really, well isn’t that interesting !
By the White House, I guess you mean that house right on the bend? When did the BBC call, was that recently?
early august i think, and yeah it looks like it could have been a vicarage
The houses will be called Church View because the cemetry is the old church yard for Hoylake Parish Church which stood there until about 1976 when sadly it was demolished as structurally unsound although I’m not convinvced much effort was made to remedy the situation.
St Hildeburgh’s then became the new parish church.
I always wondered if the Hoylake Social Club next door had at one tiome been the vicarage?
Well of course Trinity Road used to be called Church Road as the church for Hoylake was situated there before St Hildeburghs was built. The cemetery was the church grave yard. My ancient rellies are buried there. They lived in Back Sea View amongst other places, and my great great grandfather was John Youds the publican of The Plasterers Arms.
Just up from the cemetery you can see a house with a big ship embazoned in the side window. This is the house my great grandfather built for my grandad and his new wife, though the window was a later addition.
There’s a lot of history in the cemetery, guess I shall have to blow the cobwebs out of my purse!
Hello Babs,
with reference to your great great grandfather John Youds, I was wondering if you had seen the very old photos on display in the Plasterers Arms, one photo has a number of people standing outside the entrance . Someone once told me that they thought that the publican John Youds is in this photo,
Kind Regards,
Syd Bird
Hi Syd, the internet just ate my reply so apologies if you get this twice!
The publican copied the photo for me and I beleive that it is of John Youds and Charlotte nee Bird along with their children Jessie and John and possible Harold Youds another of John’s children by a different wife and who my grandfather took his middle name from. The younger John went on to be Golf Pro at the Royal Liverpool while Jessie married William Hale and they had the Farmers Arms in Moreton. There is a picture of Jessie at the pub in one of Frank Biddles books.
If ever you want to talk family my email is barbaramcginlay at googlemail dot com
Babs
Oh and there used to be a church in this graveyard until it was demolished in the late 70′s due to some kind of structural problem.
I understood the Vicarage was the Hoylake Social Club next door to the Churchyard.
Jim Oneil has a lot of info on the cemeteryt.
I think a Circus ship was shipwrecked and the dead were buried in the Churchyard.
Hello, i was just reading your last comment (sept 17 2009) regarding a jim oneil and i was wondering what sort of information he had in regards to the church and yard.
As my late father was born and grew up in hoylake in 1934(on walker street)and has just recently had a memorial stone laid and blessed in the churchyard almost to the exact spot where he and his older brother sang on the choir any info, pics etc would make for brilliant reading as it would give me some insite as to how it was then. his sister and brother are still alive and have told me a little about it but any more info would be great thanks again.
stephen dodd.