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*click for larger Here’s another quality photo from the excellent archives of Syd Bird. Gibson’s certainly had a well-stocked window di...

*click for much larger Many thanks to Graham Price for sending an old image of North Parade with Hoyle Road slipway and the water fountain clearly ...

*click for larger Try to forget that it’s pretty much wet, grey and grotty at the moment and imagine residents of Hoylake past enjoying a tra...

*click for larger A week or so ago, local business owner Chris Clare asked for photos of the building that is now his office on the corner of Wood ...

What a rare and fabulous pair of photos of the old boating lake, kindly sent in by Paul Doleman. Following on from last week’s 1931 Hoylake B...

Many thanks to Paul Doleman for sending in several, great old photographs that I’ll share with you all over the next couple of weeks. Startin...

Here’s another old image courtesy of Syd Bird. Pictured are a group of Hoylake fishermen down at the bottom of Trinity Road. I’d sugges...

Do you remember these two semi-detached houses that once stood opposite the Green Lodge car park in Kings Gap? These attractive Victorian houses we...

Many thanks to Richard Davies for sending in the above of photo the rails being replaced on the Merseyrail West Kirby line. New track is being laid...

Many thanks to Ian Powers for sending in a press cutting dating back to 1960 and featuring a crash at Elm Grove crossing that must have been a majo...

*click for larger Another good, rare image  from the Syd Bird archives – so thanks to him. Here’s St Hildeburgh’s Church being ...

Hoylake has been hosting the 2011 European Land Yachting Championships this week and there’s been quite a bit of activity down on North Parad...

Many thanks to Graham Thwaite for this week’s Friday Photo. Pictured are the kite buggies out on the sand bank off Hoylake competing last wee...

Here’s a good old photo for you all this week, kindly sent in from Syd Bird. The scene is Trinity Road and Syd tells me on the back of the ph...

Can you guess from inside which Hoylake property the above photo was taken? Well, in case you can’t, it’s the spiral staircase inside T...

Having received consent for plans for a housing development on 9th August, Wirral Partnership Homes has already commenced works on the former Heap ...

A few weeks ago I mentioned that it’d be great to see some photos of Hoylake from the 60′s and 70′s. So many thanks to John Piatt...

And we’re back! Here’s a photo kindly sent in by Syd Bird of the original Punch Bowl pub on Market Street (click for larger). Apparentl...

It’s by no means anywhere near complete yet but the new Kings Gap Hotel is starting to take shape. After a walk along the beach this morning ...

Many thanks to Graham Price for these additional photos of the Hoylake Spitfire that once stood on a garage forecourt on Market Street. You can see...

Not one but three interesting photos of a similar theme for you all this week! Firstly, the photo above (click for larger) was kindly sent in by Sy...

The resurfacing of the promenade hasn’t been universally well-received with several residents wondering if the thin, new top coating is going...

This week I’d hoped to publish a view from the beach, looking over to Hilbre Island and Wales with an imposing, dark grey sky above. However,...

*click for larger A great image from the Syd Bird archives! You can sense the urgency as the train of horses pull the lifeboat out across the sands...

As you can clearly see from my photo, the front apartment block at Hoose Court is currently being demolished. I’d presume that by the end of ...

A rare trip back to the 1970s for this week’s Friday Photo! This set of photos capturing a fire at the dairy on the Carr Lane Estate in 1977 ...

(click for larger version) Many thanks to Syd Bird for this old photo of Market Street, taken from around the junction with Elm Grove and facing to...

Another photo (click for higher resolution version) of the old lifeboat station, featuring a chap named H Cummins of West Kirby with his donkeys an...

I’d never noticed until the other day just how many chimney pots there are on the roof of the Plasterers Arms! I took that photo yesterday mo...

The topic of this weeks Friday Photo is the Burbo Bank Offshore Windfarm. The photo isn’t one I’ve managed to take myself – it...