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Comment on Friday Photo: Meols infants 1920s by Steve

Steve — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:21:40 +0000

My Gran may be in this photo along with her sisters and brother?

They were Amson’s from Saughall Massey. My Gran told me they use to walk to the school as children.

There nanmes were George, Annie Loiusie, Ethel and Bessie.

Cheers Steve

Comment on Friday Photo: Greenwood Road by admin

admin — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:08:50 +0000

Thanks for a great, informative comment!

Comment on Friday Photo: Greenwood Road by mason edwards

mason edwards — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:37:15 +0000

Mrs Brown’s sweet shop on Birkenhead Road
The sweet shop was run Mrs Brown who i believe was widowed. It was on the corner of Banks Avenue. She sold sweets and cigarettes etc from the front room and you stepped into the shop form a dark Victorian style hallway. She was rather strict, and not “child-friendly” and I can remember her telling me off for whistling in the shop. The shop had rather old point of sale displays, one of which was a parrot made from paper tissue. We used to make comments about the parrot and ended up leaving in fits of giggles. Sad, really, as she was doing her best to make ends meet in difficult times. When she retired she went to live in the flats/ houses opposite Kenney’s the chemists in Market Street. She was a dogged individual and kept on her daily excursions into Market street despite being severely disabled, walking with the aid of two sticks. In later years(when i was more mature) I hope I was kinder to her and used to stop and say Hello.

The shop in Greenwood Road.
There was a shop in a garage or shed alongside the house on the side of the road opposite the church. I think this was run by MIss Price, but not the same person as Rosy Price, who had the shop at the farm on Goose Green. I used to get sent there for top-ups of veg items…. it was a slightly scary entrance as the short track from the road was fringed by trees and bushes. I’m not sure when it closed. There WAS a toilet next door to the entrance to the farm shop. I was used by the bus drivers of the Crosville buses who parked there as a rest stop before returning to West Kirby. It wasn’t an candidate for listing – very basic, and crudely designed!

Rose Price and the farm shop on Goose Green
Yet another farm shop in the outbuildings to the left of the main farmhouse, Rose (Rosie?) Price was a delightful character and we liked going there for vegetables, eggs and possibly milk. When we paid the milk bill we managed to sneek a view of the farmhouse kitchen which nowadays would be considered as the epitome of rural style.

Sadly the farm and the outbuildings etc were all demolished to make way for the present run-of-the-mill (sorry!) housing development. I think there was opposition to the move but in those days people weren’t so adept at marshalling opinion and mounting a case against the demolition of what, if renovated, could have been a great example of Meols in its earlier days.
It should have been listed and renovated and preserved.

Bentleys Ice Cream shop and Dairy in Forest Road (next to (Meadowcroft’s?) builder’s yard)
Another shop in a house. At this one you had to knock at the door and wait for Mr or Mrs Bentley
to come to the door! From their hall or front room, they dispensed home made ice cream and filled up glass pots of cream and sealed them with foil lids. It was there that I bought my first “Archie Andrews” lollipop! (Google him!)

Comment on Sewage Outfalls by Peter Watt

Peter Watt — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:07:50 +0000

Hi John

The building near the tip of the promontary was shed housing the outfall pipe pump. The roof was lashed down. The pump was not always on. Pumping might have been timed to correspond with outgoing tides. Anyway, it smelled when it was pumping.

Peter

Comment on Sewage Outfalls by admin

admin — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:07:45 +0000

Hello Peter

Thanks for the link. What was building that you can see in the distance …I don’t think that its there today?

John

Comment on Sewage Outfalls by Peter Watt

Peter Watt — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:12:27 +0000

http://v1.lscache7.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/52625957.jpg
Old sea wall at Meols with tank traps and original pumping station in distance. c 1972

Comment on Gas leak repairs to effect traffic by Ian P

Ian P — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:01:06 +0000

I think a high pressure gas main goes under Birkenhead Road just to the Heron Road side of Birch Road. It was put in in the 70s at the time of North Sea gas conversion, and runs parallel to the railway, probably ending in a distribution center where the gas holders were sited by Hoylake Station. They burrowed under the road to avoid traffic disturbance, but the works caused the road to sink at least an inch and that was a good test of your car’s suspension.

Comment on Friday Photo: Forest Road Offices by Mrs K Danby

Mrs K Danby — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:09:50 +0000

Whilst trying to trace an uncle from Meols Drive, Eric Price, the photo brought back memorys, as a child, staying at my grandparents house in Forest Rd in the 40s. As a treat we used to be taken to visit “Bently’s Ice Cream”. for a treat.

Comment on Great Meols Bowls Club by Alex Haider

Alex Haider — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:03:11 +0000

I remember the tennis courts, there were four of them, all very well maintained. I spent many a long hot summers day there in the 70s and early 80s. I think they were there until the early 90s.

Comment on Friday Photo: Greenwood Road by Judith Law

Judith Law — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:09:17 +0000

I remember the farm shop on the Goose Green. I remember buying vegetables from there from Miss Price who ran it I think. I also remember the dairy in Forest Road. We had our milk delivered by them and went to the dairy to pay our weekly bill and to buy extras like ice cream or cream. I also remember Harrisons – liquorice whirls and sugar mice, mojos and black jacks!
The Goose Green is still known by that name. The old farm was demolished in the 1960s and new housing was built.