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Friday Photo: Great Meols 1938 bad hair day
*click for larger Here’s an old photo kindly sent to me by Arthur Dawes (left on middle row) of a Gt Meols School football team from 1938. The rumour at the time was that you shouldn’t take your son...
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Friday Photo: Trinity Road when is was Church Road
Here’s a super old photo that I spotted in a facebook feed the other day. It’s Church Road or rather it was because we now all know it today as Trinity Road. Obviously named because there used to be a...
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Friday Photo: Hoylake pirate ship
Not to be outdone by New Brighton, Hoylake now has its own pirate ship too! The above “pirate boat” is located on the corner of the grass square next to the lifeboat station and although constructed...
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Friday Photo: 30+
In my entirely unscientific way of monitoring the Hoylake climate with one of my favourite gadgets, I’d like to suggest that today was the hottest day of the year so far. At least in my back garden!...
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Friday Photo: Ferndale Road
Here’s a super view of a car-free Ferndale Road that was also published and discussed over on this facebook page. Care to put a date to this photo? I reckon that’s the view facing toward Hoyle Road...
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Friday Photo: Lake Road pastels
And we’re back! I like these pastel-coloured houses that can be found in Lake Road …possibly the most colourful row of properties in Hoylake? Though the range of soft colours is something relatively...
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Friday Photo: The Old Smithy
Here’s a photo that I took last week of The Old Smithy – a building that you can see down the little alley way next to the bike shop on Market Street. Until fairly recently there was a sign on this...
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Friday Photo: Hoylake’s ghost sign
Many thanks to Jane Williams for sending me this photo of Hoylake’s (only?) ghost sign. Back in May I suggested that an old, tiled shop doorstep was the nearest thing to a ghost sign that Hoylake...
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Friday Photo: Sailing home
The Hoylake RNLI (website - has lots of great old photos) crew published this photo a week or so ago of The Lady of Hilbre lifeboat sailing back home after being out on exercise. The light on the...
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Friday Photo: Hoylake Parish Church – colour
The former Hoylake Parish Church that was once in Trinity Road has been featured before on the site and in fact this old photo of the church received nearly 350 comments. The above photo, kindly sent...
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Friday Photo: Lighthouse view
What a great photo this is! The photo is part of the library of old images curated by Hoylake Photographic Society (blog) and it’s the view from the Valentia Road lighthouse looking toward Market...
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Friday Photo: Hoylake Home Guard
*click for larger version Here’s a rare photo of the Home Guard at Hoylake. The description of the photo is as follows: Men of the Cheshire Home Guard manning a 6 pounder naval gun mounted on a field...
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Friday Photo: Kingsway Garage / Horn Arcade
This old photo (from the Hoylake Photo Society library) captures the old Kingsway Garage that was next to the Blue Anchor (now open again by the way) and opposite the old Kingsway Cinema (currently...
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Friday Photo: Green tractor
*click for larger Many thanks to Alan Smith (Hoylake Coastguard) for sending me this photo of a green tractor well and truly stuck in the mud on the shore at Meols. As you can see it was being dug out...
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Friday Photo: F W Woolworth Hoylake
Many thanks to Richard Ardus for this week’s Friday Photo. In fact, Richard has kindly passed on to me a portfolio of black and white photos taken in and around Hoylake in the 1950s and I’ll enjoy...
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Hoylake: Sun, Sea and Golf
Inspired by a photo that I published back in February of Hoylake Station, Mason Edwards has produced this great “railway poster” of the same station. I don’t know if there were any posters promoting...
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Friday Photo: Another Hoylake ghost sign
*click for larger version Here’s another Hoylake ghost sign that I’ve walked past so many times without noticing! When I published the photo of the other Hoylake ghost sign a few weeks ago I presumed...
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Friday Photo: The Royal Hotel
*click for larger Here’s quite possibly the best photo I’ve seen to-date of the former Royal Hotel that used to be on Stanley Road. Over two years ago I featured some other photos of the old building....
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Friday Photo: Hoylake’s hidden fertility symbol
ohh Matron! If the New York Daily News and The Daily Telegraph can publish the image above then so can HoylakeJunction.com! Many thanks to Justin Dunn and Jane Williams for alerting to me to Hoylake’s...
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Friday Photo: Deneshey Road school huts
*click for larger At last! Many thanks to Frank Baker for sending me this photo of the old school huts that were once at the bottom of Deneshey Road. I’ve been after a photo of this site for...
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