Phil Quine has been in touch and has a query that perhaps one of you can answer? Whilst out for a walk recently, Phil took a couple of photos of this concrete ramp in Carterton Road on the Carr Lane estate. Coincidentally, my good mate Mike is the current occupant of the building at the top of the ramp – he runs his Wirral Vans business from there.
It’s my understanding that the ramp was once used by bin lorries – the lorries drove up and dumped their rubbish (in to what I’m not sure). But Phil wonders:
My belief is that it was used as an incline for railway wagons to dump their load either into lorries/carts or maybe into some sort of foundry? Having ‘Google Earthed’ the site, it would appear that the incline (ignoring the curve at the bottom obviously added in recent times) continues across Carr Lane and what appears to be a trackbed runs along the side one of one of the buildings on New Hall Lane. If you follow it on it then appears to cut across the 1939 Municipal Golf Course and joins the West Kirby line about half way between Hoylake and West Kirby
What more do you know? Please leave a comment and share your thoughts. And here is another photo for you, in case it helps:
Wow is that a bridge? i didn’t know we had any in hoylake! unless i’m mistaken…
Not quite, it’s a ramp. Starts right next to the Everite Windows office building.
Hi John, I seem to remember a refuse tip being down carr lane in the 50/60s, the lorries reversed up the ramp to unload the rubbish and a tractor with a digger shovel on would move the waste round, so those buildings could be on the old waste site.
David Liston
The building referred to was known as “The Destructor” the refuse site in the 50’s was located half way between Hoylake and Newton on New Hall Lane, it was on the right hand side going to Newton.
It was the refuse ramp where bin lorries unloaded. as said they reversed up and tipped there loads from the back
at the opposite end to the building on the top right – underneath the ramp was the premises of the well known local signwriter Roger Passmore. I know that because he let me come and paint an old decorative barrel organ that was being restored there.
THIS WAS WHERE THE DUST CARTS (AS THEY WERE CALLED IN THE 30&40S)
WERE UNLOADED . AS A CHILD I WATCHED THEM FROM A DISTENCE BUT I CANNOT
RECALL THAT THEY WENT UP THE RAMP IN REVERSE AT THAT TIME,IN 1940,S.
MIND YOU THEN THE DUST CARTS WERE LOADED THROUTH DOORS THAT SLID UPWARDS
AND WERE MUCH SMALLER THAN TODAYS MONSTERS
Hi Ref. The ramp in Carr Lane, the building at the top of the ramp was used to compact tin cans/ and rags/ news papers etc. Early recycle effort, possibly an aftermath of ww2.The lorry never reversed up the ramp as the space in front of the door was big enough to turn the lorry round. General waste went to the tip in tip lane.
In the 50s the building was used by a Mr Banks for car body repairs
As I remember from around 1945, it used to be known as ‘the pulverizer’ . I don’t recall any rail connections and believe it was used, as Terry said, for compaction.