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Friday Photo: Roman Road greens

Pictured above are the greens either side of Roman Road on Meols Parade. The obvious change is that the brick building (toilets?) is no longer. Not sure of the date of this old image – 1960s maybe? If...

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Friday Photo: Parade Gardens squash court plans

Many thanks to regular contributor Frank Baker for finding and sending me this old photo relating to plans for a squash court building in the Parade Gardens down on the prom. Back in 1971 the Hoylake...

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Friday Photo: Hope she said Yes!

As a little personal project, I’ve been slowly building up a library of photos of things that people write in the sand on Hoylake beach. I came across the above question the other day by King’s Gap:...

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Friday Photo: 3 of the street

Many thanks to Arthur Daws for sending me the three above photos of Market Street, dated from around 100 years ago. The top one is the view from the junction at Chapel Road and on the right would’ve...

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Friday Photo: Firshaw Road air raid shelter

So that’s what it was! Many thanks to Vaughan Williams for sending me a photo along with an explanation of why there’s a grassed mound in a garden in Firshaw Road, Meols. I’ve often walked past the...

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Friday Photo: Man on wire

I just happened to be nearing the end of a run during my lunch hour a couple of weeks ago when I ran past this young man practising his high wire skills. Well okay, the wire wasn’t so high but the...

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Friday Photo: Off to the wreck

*click for larger version Here’s a good old photo of a Hoylake lifeboat launch that I don’t think I seen before! Entitled “Off to the Wreck”, the horses are ready to pull the lifeboat across the sand...

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Friday Photo: The Royal Liverpool

*click for larger Here’s a nice old photo of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club. Dated 1910, the photo captures a workman doing some repairs off ladders. Interesting that the club once had lawns – they’ve...

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Friday Photo: Blue bus

How’s about this for a camper van! This cool, blue DAF bus is currently parked-up on the grass next to the lifeboat station and it belongs to one of the land-yacht competitors. Looks like good fun to...

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Friday Photo: Maybe an old Hoylake post office

So, I’m not sure about this old photo. I noticed it on ebay and apparently it’s supposed to be a photo of an old Hoylake post office (c1910) at  72, Market Street. Now number 72 would’ve stood where...

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Friday Photo: Hoylake cab men

Another old photo from ebay this week, this one featuring several Hoylake cab men outside their hut. Well, apparently that’s what is says on the reverse of the image that’s dated 1910. It’s hard to...

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Friday Photo: Embankment construction

Here’s a photo (of a photo) taken in 1978 during the embankment construction off Meols. I happened to spot the photo posted on twitter by Graham Connolly. I was living in Meols back then and I’m...

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Friday Photo: Two knights

How odd! Just remembered that I snapped this scene about three weeks ago at Sandhey slipway down on the prom. It was the morning after the remnants of hurricane Ophelia hit our coastline, if I...

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Friday Photo: More embankment photos

Hello! Time flies and I’ve not made the time to post over the last three weeks or so. Maybe I should use one of those habit tracker apps on my phone to get me into the routine of posting regularly?...

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Friday Photo: Looking for oil and gas

Many thanks to John R. for these rare photos that prove my memories of seismic surveys in Hoylake were true! I’d mentioned last week my memory of seismic survey trucks driving in convoy around Hoylake...

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Friday Photo: Latta’s Boatyard

Hello. Long time, no see! Sorry for the tumbleweed during January but I just haven’t had chance to publish anything over the last month. Actually, that’s not strictly true, as I did have some time a...

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