My old mate Mike Mitchell also happens to be a client of my search marketing company. Mike runs his business – MJM Light Commercials – from a unit on Hoylake’s Carr Lane Industrial site. I’ve started to develop a website at Wirral Vans for Mike to promote his used vans business that he’s has been running for a few years now.
Nice to see the world of ecommerce is alive and well in Hoylake!
By the way – could anyone tell me any history of the Carr Lane site at all?
The Carr Lane site brings back memories of the local gasworks. The grinding, squealing sound of the bucket conveyor loading coal into the retort was a familiar sound to me when I lived at Links View by the golf course. As kids, we used to peer in through the chainlink fence at the strange, naptha or tar soaked earth around the retort with leakage running in channels to who knows where. (They wouldn’t get away with it now).
Shortly after the war, people used to collect coke, a by-product from the distillation of coal, in old prams and trollys. It took some lighting but then burned hot as h*** and was much cheaper than coal.
The two gas holders tended to fill up during the night, getting to full height by morning. Sunday lunchtime, when every ones Mum was cooking the joint, they dropped right down.