Jesse Bird Update
May 4, 2009 by John · 5 Comments
Many thanks to all of you who knew what Jessies Yard used to be – see I told you you’d know! Thanks for getting in touch either by email or by leaving a comment – it’s great to hear from you. Great to hear from Syd Bird the great grandchild of Jesse Bird, who left a comment . I’ll check the drainpipe mentioned – just in case those initials are still there.
Interesting to hear that the horses used by Jesse Bird were also used to pull the lifeboat out to sea. Thanks to Sue Vine for alerting me to this Old Wirral article – take a look at their Hoylake section too, they have some great old photos along with a few articles of local and a wider Wirral history.
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Some great pics in that OldWirral.com site! I’d love to go back in time and walk around Hoylake before it was so built up….! My grandmother , Minnie Hayward, used to reminisce on her childhood Hoylake holidays having travelled all the way from Birkenhead!! Born in 1897, she lived in West Kirby drom the 1930s then Hoylake from the 1960s and frequently would raise her walking stick and tell everyone she remembered it when it was all just sandhills and fields.
My Gran was also born that year, 1897, funny if they knew each other, i will ask my Mum if she recognises your Grandmothers name.
re Jesse Bird- do we know for sure that Jessies Yard does refer to Jesse Bird. Jessie being female name and of course Jesse a mans. Maybe the builders/developers whatever of the apartments had heard the name but not seen it written??
Obviously I wasn’t teh only one who made the Jesse connection but are we correct. Fun if anyone who lives in Hoylake still could check it out.
hi, my mother was a Broster born in the farm House next door to Jesse Bird, were Syd Bird lived I believe. two of my Grandfathers Horses used to with Jesse Birds Horses, pull the Tractor down to the beach. Helen Carr.