Here are some local items of news including more shop changes in Market Street.
Shops
The Vino Vino pizza restaurant opposite the Punchbowl has closed and is set to reopen as a Greek restaurant called El Greco.
Skating company Rampworx appears to be opening an office on Market Street in the former offices of a mortgage brokerage company.
Private Sewers
Thanks to John Bingley for alerting me to forthcoming changes in legislation that will see water companies taking ownership of private sewer pipes. For more information visit the United Utilities website. By coincidence, somebody mentioned this Flush Tracker website to me earlier in the week (I’ve not tried it myself). Also, did anyone else notice the whiff coming from the pumping station at the end of Dovepoint Road in Meols during the week?
Wirral Forum
Leo Simmons has provided me with some additional information to his forum:
www.theoldtown.net is a website created with the express purpose of facilitating the re-contact of old friends, family and acquaintances. The aim is very simple – to create an easy and safe medium through which to experience the pleasure of re-connecting with people you may only ever have known as neighbours by their first name, or by their house number, or even by their kid’s bike colour!
Everton v Hoylake Athletic
No, not a forthcoming friendly but a question for you from Simon O’Connell! Simon asks:
“I have an early memory of being taken to watch Everton FC play at Hoylake Athletic’s ground, some time in the late 1960s I’d say; it must have been a charity or exhibition match. Was the match against Hoylake? Does anyone have any information about this, a newspaper cutting or a programme even? Are there any photographs of the occasion?
Leave a comment if you know the answer.
Fishing
There have been a few sea-anglers walking out to the sandbank from Kings Gap with their fishing rods. Can anyone tell me what types of fish are being caught at the moment? Is it sea bass?
Promenade Shelter
The shelter on North Parade is currently being refurbished – look out for wet paint. The shelter was last given a makeover prior to the Open Golf Championships in 2006.
Everton V Hoylake.
Dixie Dean was captain of Everton. Tossed the coin and then went to the stands.
Tony Kay who was banned from Football played because it was a charity event. Andy Rankin Played in goal.
Most of the Everton team were reserves and ” B ” players.
I can remember a football match between Hoylake and Liverpool in the 1950’s at the Melrose Avenue ground. I remember getting the autograph of Ian St John.
How many can remember the TWO Everton players in the early 50’s named FARRELL. Alex Farrell was from Hoylake Parade School and played for England Schoolboys in about 1951. I can remember many of the Parade School kids going to London by train from Birkenhead Woodside Station and travelling overnight. I don’t think the teachers got much sleep that night, judging by the small red lights from cigarettes that kept travelling up and down the carriages.
El Greco seems to promise well. They claim to source their food locally and I know that they purchase meat from Bill Page on Market Street. Bumped into some neighbours they other day and they remarked that they had a very good meal there with excellent lamb! So will try it out sometime.
See that the old ‘Tender Loins’ resturant is to be reborn as the ‘Monte Carlo’ apparently as an Italian resturant,
Noticed the other day workmen taking bits of old bank safe out old bank building on corner of Market Street being turned into another coffee shop.
El Greco seems to have gone downhill fast. We had a really good meal about 10 days ago but the latest experience was pretty poor. I know the owner/chef’s wife has returned to Greece so maybe she was the quality control.
I have to disagree Tav, we eat at El Greco regularly, last night being the latest, and the food is still as good as it always was.
This is a question about dress code for schools in England. Today on a talk radio show
in Windsor Ontario Canada, the host said that all scools in England were banning skirts because girls where hiking, or rolling them up to be very short, This rule was to stop people from having thought about girls.I am curiose if the person actualy heard of this idea or is off her rocker.