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Friday Photo: 70’s Market Street
*click for larger version I’m taking a guess that this photo is from the 1970s? It’s no earlier than 1973 because that car indicating right is an Austin Allegro and they didn’t start making those...
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Friday Photo: “I can see our Keith’s from up here”
A great aerial shot of Hoylake this week posted on twitter by @oldpicposter the other day. Pictured, of course, is the old Hoylake outdoor pool with the adjacent boating lake. Apparently this photo...
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Friday Photo: All the leaves are brown
…and the sky is grey. Nope, I haven’t been dreaming about California and as you’ll see, not all the leaves are brown. Though the sky has been very grey today, certainly this morning. The photo above...
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Friday Photo: Kingsway Cinema
Many thanks to Frank Baker for this week’s Friday Photo. Frank kindly gave me a copy of his film Hoylake, Then & Now and among the many super images is the one above of the old Kingsway Cinema on...
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Friday Photo: Poppies
I mentioned last week a Remembrance Service being held today at St John’s Church in Meols. I also mentioned that members of the local congregation have been very busy knitting poppies for a...
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Friday Photo: Piece of sky
Contrasting photos of the same piece of sky above Hoylake, taken yesterday and today down on the promenade. Yesterday morning around 8’ish the sun made an effort to appear from behind the rain clouds...
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Friday Photo: King’s Gap slipway
An oldie for this week’s Friday Photo. It’s a view of Hoylake beach from the King’s Gap slipway looking toward Meols. Spot the old lower lighthouse and some steps down to the sand. Apparently the post...
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Friday Photo: Fishermen at Meols
Many thanks to Kate Hughes for this week’s Friday Photo. Captured at the Meols slipway is a fisherman attending to what looks to me like an old trawler… or more likely what’s left of it! A flat-calm...
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Friday Photo: Yet another photo of Hoylake Baths
I think I might have mentioned recently that I wouldn’t publish any more photos of Hoylake baths for a while. Well, here’s an exception… Hoylake Baths in the snow! Exceptions can often be made for...
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Friday Photo: Hyslop-Maxwell family bike ride
*click for larger Here’s an old photo that I stumbled upon some time ago… over three years ago in fact! It features members of two families, one being the Hyslop-Maxwell’s and the other the Willink’s....
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Friday Photo: Threshers
And we’re back for 2017 – a belated Happy New Year to you all! Hope the year ahead keeps you happy and healthy. Talking of shops, here’s an off-licence from the past! Pictured is Threshers at the top...
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Friday Photo: Steam, electricity and gas
*click for larger version This is such a good old photo, posted this week on twitter by @oldpicposter as it captures various aspects of Hoylake’s domestic energy history. It’s Hoylake station, if you...
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Friday Photo: Boatyard
*click for larger version Just been updating and looking through my photo library. I snapped this one yesterday morning down on the beach opposite Government Road. I like the red hull on the yacht,...
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Friday Photo: The shore
Here’s another old photo from @oldpicposter capturing a busy shore at the slipway to the old lifeboat station. Presumably this was the start/end point for pony and trap rides along the beach? I’ve no...
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Friday Photo: Scooters
I spotted this photo on twitter a while but only just remembered that I’d book-marked it. It just caught my eye and struck me as something that you don’t normally see down on the prom. They’re three...
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Friday Photo: The ghost of Dion Dublin’s dog
*click for larger Possibly the most unusual story I’ve posted on Hoylake Junction for quite some time and it’s not an early April Fool! The writing in the sand does of course say Frank. Frank, or Big...
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Friday Photo: Royal Liverpool 1925
I’ve just been browsing the Britain From Above site again for the first time in a while and there’s a couple of new (old) photos for Hoylake, Meols and West Kirby. Pictured above is an aerial photo...
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Friday Photo: University challenge Hoylake
Nope, not Eric Monkman, a press report from a university golf match held at Hoylake in 1910. A golfing tournament between Cambridge and Oxford universities which Cambridge won by 5 matches to 3. This...
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Friday Photo: Boating and paddling pools
*click for larger No date for this old photo I’m afraid but the image captures a busy day at the boating and paddling pools. And the beach. The boating lake (pool) as was is now of course used for...
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Friday Photo: A consonant, a vowel, another vowel
Nope, Countdown isn’t coming to Hoylake, but is there something strange (in the neighbourhood) going on with our local shop signage? Sign Busters! Fellow morning walkers Frank and John have spotted...
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