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A lovely old photo this week of a packed promenade!
Plenty of people on the beach and plenty of cars parked on North Parade too. I’ve no idea of the date of this photo (what do you reckon?) but it would appear that the prom is one-way (all the cars facing same way). And it must have been before double yellow lines restricted parking to just the beach side of the road.
Spot the chap doing a spot of gardening and the deck-chair a couple of houses up from him. There’s a few bikes leaning against the promenade railings and what look like motorbike and sidecars parked up. I wonder what the sand was like back then? Nowadays it can be a bit soft and muddy when you walk a few metres out from the railings.
Anyway, tomorrow morning I’ll be running along the prom again. The forecast is for light winds tomorrow …much nicer than running into a howling gale! You can sponsor me if you’d be so kind 🙂
there is at least one 1950’s car in it so I think its more recent than it first looks
Are you Ian Powers? If so I have found the photograph of your cousins. Please can Hoylake Junction release my email address to you so that I may contact you and send you the photograph which was taken when we all lived in Greasby.
Can anyone remember the approx date when the Jetty was dismantled, I remember they used to have boat rides at the end of the Jetty. Brian.
Fortunately my son-in -law Andy is here this weekend, and there is little he does not know about cars.
According to him, the most recent car is a Ford Anglia, of the post war design which was built between 1953 and 1959. The third vehicle from the left, near the beach, is one of these, he reckons an earlier version of that model range, maybe 1953 to 1955-ish.
So that would date the picture probably about that time, especially as all the other cars appear to be pre-war designs, some of which may have been built after the war, as when the British car industry got back to building civilian vehicles, they were initially to pre-war designs.
Maybe the driver of the Anglia was showing off his, or her, brand new car !
It used to be quite sandy until you were quite a long way out. There used to be ‘Punch and Judy’ shows on the beach – and if I remember correctly , donkey rides.