Here’s the view from the platform at Meols Station taken on a recent family trip out to Liverpool. It only cost £4 return for all of us thanks to the Christmas Cracker fare promotion.

You’ll be seeing some improvements being made to the station soon – Meols has been selected as one of 7 stations on the Merseyrail network to receive funding from the National Stations Improvement Programme. I can’t find details of improvements are to be made …so we’ll just have to wait and see!

Can anybody tell me what’s inside this little green cabinet that’s on the corner of Parkway (Park Road end)? It’s quite an unusual looking cabinet and I guess it holds a meter or phone equipment of some sort?

The padlock looks reasonably new suggesting the cabinet is being maintained.

Do you ever have those moments when you see something somewhere and you ask yourself …is that new or has it always been there?

Well I had such a moment with this post box that’s on Bennets Lane, just past Guffitts Rake. I was kind of sure it was reasonably new but then I started to doubt myself. Fortunately, I know that it is reasonably new because in the photo below taken in June last year (when they resurfaced the road) it wasn’t there. So how long has that post box been there then?

I took this photo at around 8.30 this morning and as you can see, the Irish Sea at Meols was dead calm. I suspect that won’t be the case over the weekend though as some pretty horrible weather is on it’s way.

Does anybody know if these fishing boats are still in commercial operation? Please feel free to leave a comment below.

Happened to be walking along Forest Road the other morning when I noticed the spires on St Johns Church. I presume that’s a lightning conductor running down the brickwork? Can’t say that we get many lightning strikes in West Wirral – do we?

Although Meols is predominately a residential village it does have some commercial premises. There are the shops, doctors surgery and (empty) offices at Station Approach and the old Barclays Bank on the main road is now a beauty parlour. Additionally and pictured above is a building used as commercial premises in Forest Road.

A small number of businesses are operating from the building including an ironing company, a freight forwarding business and an office for building contractors. As Forest Road is possibly the most prestigious road in Meols for houses it seems funny that this building is being used for ironing!

I’m not sure but years ago I think it may have been a joinery yard?

Today’s photo shows the footpath in the Monkey Woods …the woody footpath that links Shaws Drive to Queens Park. Obvious question is, why the name Monkey Woods?

I’ve called this area that straddles either side of Roman Road as Meols Common – to be honest I’m not sure what it’s actually called! It’s the common that also can be accessed via the cut-throughs from Shaws Drive, Forest Road and Meols Parade.

I visit it a few times a week now as I walk our new dog but I can remember playing in their as a young lad with my mates. The place hasn’t changed much at all really.

Just about every Meols resident will instantly recognise this building – the sewage waste pumping station on the common ground behind the promenade.

Despite being a local for many years I’ve never really understood what this building is for. Likewise the other one at the end of Dovepoint Road. Do both these buildings still house active sewage pumping equipment? Does the waste get pumped out to sea?

Feel free to update me.