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Friday Photo: The tide is high
*click for larger version Having not had a copy for umpteen years, I asked for a Laver’s Tide Tables for my birthday this year. While browsing though it last weekend I noticed that today had one of...
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Friday Photo: Clayton Terrace
I like this row of terraced houses in Airlie Road, attractive looking, most with traditional front doors along with nice bay windows and feature rows of bricks. Until my walk this morning I’d...
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Friday Photo: Spring!
Not too bad a day at all today; noticeably warmer than of late with a nice bit of sunshine too! My trusty garden thermometer outside the back kitchen door was showing 12c at 1 o’clock. The minimum...
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Friday Photo: The King’s Gap turret
The photo above (one of mine taken on a recent weekend walk) is of the turret on the corner of King’s Gap and North Parade. I’ve walked, ran, cycled, driven past it thousands of times without giving...
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Friday Photo: The eclipse
Well that was a bit disappointing! At 8.30 this morning the sun was shining and there was quite a lot of blue sky about. And then an hour later when the solar eclipse was due the sky had turned all...
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Friday Photo: Valentia Road
Pictured above is the detached property on the corner of Valentia Road and Queens Road. It’s quite a unique style of house for Hoylake, off the top of my head I can’t think of another house locally...
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Friday Photo: Yellow
Many thanks to Frank Baker for this great photo taken recently of all the daffodils in full bloom at The Quadrant. I wonder how many there are, must be a thousand or more? Note the blue sky …not...
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Friday Photo: Back soon
Best laid plans and all that… sorry for a lack of a photo this week. Time and technology have got the better of me. Post from HoylakeJunction.com Friday Photo: Back soon
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Friday Photo: Wilton Grange
And we’re back! Firstly, apologies for the lack of posts. What with the Easter holiday, work stuff and jury service at Liverpool Crown Court for a couple of weeks (a worthy, but somewhat inconvenient...
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Friday Photo: The King’s Gap turret house
*click for larger Many thanks to Charles Morris for sending me these super photos of the house that once stood at King’s Gap where the turret still is. See my earlier post and read the interesting...
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Friday Photo: Snow on the line
*click for larger Many thanks to Charles Morris for another super old-photo! Here we have a photo of the West Kirby train line, looking towards Hoylake Station, taken in 1965. Charles comments: “I...
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Friday Photo: VE Day parties
*click for larger Timing isn’t perfect as the 70th VE Day anniversary has just passed but here are photos of VE Day parties kindly sent in by Les Colcutt and Richard McIntyre. Above is a photo from...
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Friday Photo: Big boat, little boat
*click for larger We went to Wallasey on the morning of Bank Holiday Monday to watch the Cunard Three Queens celebration in the River Mersey. And we timed an afternoon walk along Meols prom to...
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Queens Road: Demolition
Here are two photos of the current demolition of the Westhaven care home in Queens Road. Thanks to Frank Baker for the photo above taken earlier in the week. The poorer quality one below is mine (of...
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Friday Photo: Cottages old and new
Not everyone will have noticed the new-build house (above) on the corner of Back Sea View and Grove Place – I think it fits in quite well myself, how about you? It was built on the site of this garage...
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Friday Photo: Just raked
The beach was looking good first thing this morning having been recently raked by the tractor. But not all of it. There’s still that always wet, not-so-nice patch just by the old toilet block. Why is...
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Friday Photo: Jellyfish
Hello! Back after the summer (in name if nothing else) and hopefully full of renewed enthusiasm and commitment for the autumn and winter terms ahead. Pictured above is one of what were several (dead,...
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Friday Photo: Hoylake Station 1961
*click for larger Here’s a photo of Hoylake Station, taken 25th June, 1961. Spot the changes between this photo and one of the station taken decades earlier. Just out of view in this photo must be the...
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Friday Photo: Sunset
*click for larger I’ve walked down to the prom on a couple of evenings this week to look at the sunsets and to take a few snaps like the one above. The pirate ship acts as a local landmark now and a...
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Friday Photo: Northern Lights
*click for larger We were watching the news and weather last night when BBC Northwest showed a selection of photos of the Northern Lights – the one above was taken at Hoylake. The photo, by David...
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