Just happened to spot an ad for a large Meols Drive property in the local paper. This 3 floored house called Redcroft backs onto the 18th green of Royal Liverpool golf course.Â
Requiring refurbishment throughout, this 7 (9 really) bedroomed dwelling is for sale by informal tender via Karl Tatler (property not listed). So if you’ve been lucky enough to find some loose change down the back of the couch, you might want to give them a call !
I used to deliver papers there in the early/mid 1970s for the newsagent (name forgotten but I’m sure it began with A and was a north country name!) opposite old Woolworths / John David furniture store. The house owner used to be rather scary and got cross if his paper didn’t arrive exactly on time!
I remember an older couple with an old fashioned sweet and tobacconists shop right opposite Woolies, they were called Mr. Mrs Simmonds.
Aha! Yes, Simmonds, that rings a bell! They were a lovely old couple. The trouble with their paper rounds was that they were 7 days a week so not a single day off whereas most other newsagents used to have separate weekly and weekend rounds.
My Grand parents named Hughes lived in this house late 1950’s I guess
Phillip
can you tell me why meols drive is called meols drive as meols is before you get to hoylake and meols drive runs from hoylake to west kirby
im sure there is a reason
b jones
Brian
As you probably know present day Hoylake is named after the Hoyle Lake (also referred to as High or Hyle Lake) – the formerly permanent tidal channel , or lake, and anchorage running from Hilbre Island to Great Meols.
Hoylake is a relatively modern construct and seems to have been first applied as a place name, rather than a tidal lake, to the area around The Royal Hotel in Stanley Road and The King’s Gap.
Modern Hoylake covers most of what older maps show as Little Meols, Hoose and Great Meols.
Hoose was the central ‘old village’ area of Hoylake, Little Meols was the area between Hoose and central West Kirby covering the full length of Meols Drive to about Lingdale & Riversdale Roads. Hence Meols Drive! Great Meols still retains its original name although most usually without the prefix.
The Hoose name has been almost totally lost altho’ it lives on in the Hoose Court flats and the Little Meols name only lives on through Meols Drive.
Meols is I understand generally thought to mean sandhills.
Peter
PS. Any further happenings at The Paddock?
Not really Peter, no. Whoever it was, they were removing junk from the building but when I went past the other day nothing was happening.
There you go – photo added !
My Grand parents named Hughes lived in this house late 1950’s I guess
Phillip