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Comment on Pub For Sale: The Punch Bowl by Kyri Kyriacou

Kyri Kyriacou — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:32:07 +0000

Dear all,

As acting agent for the sale of the premises, I have conveyed the above comments to the overseas vendors.
We would agree that the building is attractive and should remain an integral part of the high street. The vendors are selling the premises because of other financial commitments but they would consider interest from parties seeking to lease/rent the premises.

Please fee free to contact me on 0151 214 0361.

Kyri Kyriacou
Head of Agency

Comment on Friday Photo: Hoylake Parish Church by Ruth Treece (Rowlands)

Ruth Treece (Rowlands) — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:03:49 +0000

I lived in Hoylake until I married 54 years ago. I played with children from the Ellen Gonner home which was on the promenade on the corner of Trinity Road. Bryn Mor was a home for the blind in those days. The convalescent home at the West Kirby end of Meols Drive was for patients with consumption, what we would call tuberculosis now, and they did put the beds out on the verandah in all weathers because they believed that cold air could help the condition, especially when mingled with the scent of pine trees. Those that could afford it used to ship their loved ones off to Switzerland for that reason. The building was used later (in the 50′s) as a convalescent home for children suffering with chronic asthma. We used to think nothing ever happened in Hoylake and yet all this was going on. I had a very happy childhood there and the sun did shine all the summer holidays. Ruth

Comment on Friday Photo: Hoylake Parish Church by Diane Hind

Diane Hind — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:32:05 +0000

Hiya Gina

The Ellen Gonner home was at the bottom of Trinity Road opposite fellowship house, its now flats.

Brynmor i think was the second house from the corner of Clydesdale Road, I used to go to Tea there as i was friendly with a few girls from there. The house mother was very strict with them.

I also remember the metal framed beds on the verandah at the convelescence home. I had forgotten about that

Cheers Diane

Comment on Punch Bowl: Police request licence review by Leo Simmons

Leo Simmons — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:41:35 +0000

I thought the place was up for sale anyway?

Comment on Friday Photo: Hoylake Parish Church by Gina Kirkham

Gina Kirkham — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:52:39 +0000

My pleasure Sheila, I’m Hoylake born and bred and still living here, its such a lovely place.

I’ve found I’ve started reminiscing more since my Mum and Dad passed away…somehow we seem to look back on the early years, believing they were so much better……I still think that the sun seemed to shine EVERY day on our summer holidays, the water in Hoylake Baths was never cold and the only down side was it seemed to take 10 years to get from one christmas to another!

I think the Ellen Gonner home was actually on the same site as Brynmore, only earlier….taking up more most of that block, but I’m not 100% sure. There was another “home” in West Kirby, which was a Convalescence Home/Residential School, that was just at the end of Meols Drive. I vaguely remember children in metal framed beds on a verandah if the weather was good.

Comment on Pub For Sale: The Punch Bowl by Punch Bowl: Police request licence review | HoylakeJunction.com

Punch Bowl: Police request licence review | HoylakeJunction.com — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:14:44 +0000

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Comment on Coast: Hoylake featured in BBC2 programme by John

John — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:37:12 +0000

Ah, nope, I don’t think iplayer works outside the UK. Unless it does as an app on an ipad?

Comment on Friday Photo: Hoylake Parish Church by Meridel Nelson

Meridel Nelson — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:50:51 +0000

In the 20s the Edwardian houses along between the bottom of Trinity Road and the baths used to be let out in the summer. My late father, Norman Thompson, told me that they used to rent one in the summer. His family moved from Bishop Wearmouth in 1916 when his father was transferred from the Wear to the Mersey with his work as a foreman boilermaker in the shipyards.

Comment on Friday Photo: Hoylake Parish Church by sheila devlin nee Wray

sheila devlin nee Wray — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:56:52 +0000

Hi Gina, thanks for that..after so many years the memories get sort of muddled especially as I didn’t take much notice then. It is only now that I am trying to piece things together and get my memory jogged by this super site. I left Hoylake in about 1957 ish so it is all a bit hazy.

I have been lucky in that some people who have remembered me and my family have been in contact..always on the hope of more info.

If I remember, the homes were really big houses but then they would be wouldn’t they? Like I say..thank you for replying..another little piece to fit into my jigsaw.

Comment on Friday Photo: Corner of Wood Street by Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:01:51 +0000

That was my grandfather’s shop. My mum, Ann, moved to Wallasey but is a great regular around the Hoylake bowling scene now.