Hoylake Village Life, Hoylake Community Centre and Transition Town West Kirby have been working in partnership (and with permission from Birkenhead Market) to arrange this forthcoming Farmers’ Market-style event in Hoylake. Â You’ll be able to meet local producers directly selling the food that they produce.
Throughout the event there will be cookery demonstrations from Colin Parry, chef at La Paz, West Kirby, using local seasonal produce.
The organisers have had huge interest from local producers, with an amazing range of food available (*see below). There will also be tea, coffee, freshly cooked bacon sandwiches (using local, rare breed pork, of course) and hot scones coming straight out of the oven. A Sunday brunch not to be missed.
As the event falls on Halloween you possibly might just be able to try a slice of pumpkin pie!
What: Hoylake Local Food Fair
When: Sunday 31st October, 10am to 2pm
Where: Hoylake Community Centre, Hoyle Road, Wirral CH47 3AG – FREE ADMISSION
*Confirmed produce:
Afro-Caribbean ready meals, spices, sauces and Wirral grown African/Caribbean seasonal vegetables. Jams, jellies, chutneys, marmalades, sauces, mustards, cordials, compotes, fruit cheeses. Welsh-reared buffalo meat, burgers and sausages. Lamb and lamb burgers. Pork, pork sausages and sweet dry cured bacon. Sourdough bread, flapjacks and tea time treats. Heswall honey and preserves. Handmade, individual pies – including Sausage & Apple, Cheese & Potato and Goats Cheese & Onion. Samosas. Cupcakes. Locally grown fruit and vegetables. Oak smoked fish, meat, poultry, cheese, seasalt, vegetables. Organic beef & lamb. Cakes, scones baked fresh at the market, Welsh cakes. Jersey ice creams and sorbets. Homemade beef pies from home-produced beef. Culinary herbs in pots, baskets and boxes. Handmade frozen ready meals from local produce, Champagne pâté in Kilner Jars, speciality mayonnaises, dips, meringues / pavlovas. Freshly cooked, hot bacon butties from rare breed pork. Traditional real ale & old-fashioned still soft drinks. Great British steamed puddings, chocolate, ginger, sticky toffee, citrus and more. Award Winning Handmade Fudge. Asian chutneys, samosas, bhagees, and curry sauce. Cheshire cheese, soft blue cheese, fresh soft cheese, pickled Cheshire damsons.
I’ve been looking at this website for a couple of years now, and it has amazed me to see how many new initiatives and groups are emerging from within the local community in Hoylake!
Hoylake Food Fair is another example of the local community taking action themselves to make Hoylake a better place.
I’ve also been following news about the vibrant floral displays from Hoylake and Meols in Bloom, everyone involved in the opening of the fantastic model boating lake, the great events being organised by the team at Hoylake Community Centre and Wednesday Special Needs Club, the cluster of Big Lunch street parties held this year in Hoylake, the work being done by Friends of Grove Park to improve their space, the work of Hoylake Village Life to make Hoylake a better place, the efforts to create a Lifeboat Museum in the Old Lifeboat Station, and of course the great work of everyone at Hoylake’s Lifeboat Station and Hoylake Cottage Hospital.
I’m sure there’s a lot more being done by others in the community (can anyone add anything I’ve missed?? ). There is certainly a lot of inspiration out there in Hoylake from the local community, and I think it is an example to anywhere else in Britain of what you can achieve when the community comes together like this.
I want to say a huge thanks to everyone involved in helping to make Hoylake a better place, and especially to this website Hoylakejunction for making a massive contribution to all of these efforts.
A couple more events come to mind even as I finish typing – the Wirral Open Studio Tour during the weekend of 12th to 14th November, which a trail of art exhibitions around Hoylake and Wirral.
And Hoylake Village Life are organising the second Hallween Scare Festival including the Best Shop Window competition 23rd to 30th October, and the Children’s Halloween Party at Hoylake Community Centre on Saturday 30th October, 5pm to 8pm. Tickets are on sale now from Supersaver and Vanilla or the Hoylake Village website.
All good stuff – now is there anything else!
Hoylake has always been community minded and most of the initiatives you have mentioned have been ongoing for years with dedicated supporters
Each group runs their own affairs and then concentrate on their own interest so ensuring that they are committed to their cause.
The Residents network is so good that Public Meetings can be called in days if an issue arises and this keep the Community Spirit alive.
Hoylake is now becoming a town of Specialist Shops which was highlighted at a Public Meeting in Melrose Hall some 18 months. People will travel for specialism and hopefully this will keep Hoylake going.
If the Village and Promenade look Clean and Cared for then people are attracted.
The main attraction of our promenade is free parking and nothing to spend money on for young families. A picnic on the beach!!!