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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here we have a photo taken last Wednesday of the boat trailers parked up by Meols slipway at the top of Bennet’s Lane.
I’ve always liked this part of Meols for some reason. I was always riding around there on my bike as a young lad to watch the boats and the sea. I can remember [...]