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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

*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 … [Read more...]

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. … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]