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Friday Photo: West Kirby Penguin

John — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:46:55 +0000

This brightly painted chap is sat on his concrete plinth outside Surfers Restaurant in Banks Road. He’s one of the Wirral based Go Penguins and you can read all about the penguins at the official site.

This particular penguin is being used to raise recognition of Antarctic Warming (that’s what he’s called) and he’s been painted by artist Lee-Ann Pritchard and sponsored by Surfers.

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Friday Photo: Crescent Building

John — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:17:49 +0000

This is the top of one the buildings in The Crescent in the centre of West Kirby. Does anybody know what this building was originally used for? Those old windows are lovely!

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Friday Photo: Old West Kirby Station

John — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:31:47 +0000

Many thanks to Chris Hankin for sending me a few old photographs of the old West Kirby Station. This is the old station that served the line that ran the route of what is now the Wirral Way. Those of you who have lived in West Kirby for some years will recall the old railway bridge that was at the bottom of Grange Hill (if that’s you, you’ll also remember the old Crosville bus yard too)? I think that old bridge must have been demolished around 1980.

Chris comments:

The GWR (or more correctly GWR/LMS joint) station was to the east of the current station [Orrysdale Rd]; coming from Hoylake the track curved left pretty sharply after coming through the Bridge Road bridge, and through the station, onto what is now the Wirral Way.

The photo of the demolition of the GWR station was taken from the bridge that took Grange Road over the railway track. If you extend the Wirral Way over Grange Road towards Hoylake that puts the station just about where the eastern edge of the Concourse Car Park is now. There were a number of sidings between the GWR Station and the current station – lots of coal and timber was dealt with here – there was a massive fire in the timber yard once.

I’ve found this wikipedia article about the old station too that adds a little more detail.

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Friday Photo: War Memorial Repairs

John — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:22:54 +0000

As you can see from my photo, repair work is being undertaken on the war memorial. Does anybody know what the work entails and how long it will take?

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Friday Photo: Dee Lane At Dusk

John — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:16 +0000

Here’s a (not great) photo that I took yesterday evening in Dee Lane. What an ugly building The Concourse is …I’ve never liked it myself. Ugly and grey on the outside, confusing and warren like on the inside. As the town’s (is West Kirby big enough to be called a town?) main building it’s not reflective of how attractive West Kirby really is.

Or maybe you don’t agree? Please feel free to leave a comment and have your say.

I don’t know what was previously on The Concourse site – can you enlighten me?

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Friday Photo: Marine Lake Jetty

John — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:52:08 +0000

A really great photo (source) of a dead calm Marine Lake with birds sitting on the jetty. Will try and publish one of own photos next Friday.

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Friday Photo: Dee Lane Junction

John — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:58:19 +0000

Here’s a photo (source) of the busy Dee Lane junction with Barclays Bank on the corner. That’s a lovely sandstone building – does anybody know what it was originally built for? Maybe it’s always been a bank!

Of course Dee Lane junction, where it meets Grange Road has been of interest to the council road planners. Do you remember the uproar a few years ago when they installed traffic lights at the junction?

Please do leave a comment if you can provide any more information about the bank building – it’d be great to hear about it’s history.

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Friday Photo: Sailing School

John — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:40:13 +0000

Here’s a photo of the West Kirby sailing school building that I took back in December last year. I chose to pick this building as the subject of today’s Friday Photo as the site is back in the news again.

The local papers are reporting that the Council may make a compulsory purchase order on the site in order to progress the controversial Sail Hotel project.

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Friday Photo: Autumn Sunset

John — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:59:11 +0000

I really like this sunset view taken a local earlier this in West Kirby. I think it’s by Jan Williams and you can see more of her photos by starting here. Looks to me like it was taken from the Wirral Way, though I’m open to correction!

If you would like your photo featured, simply email it to news [@] westkirby.org

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Friday Photo: 1970 Promenade

John — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:51:16 +0000

I was made aware of this photo posted in flickr on this page by a chap in America who was after some information about a Hoylake property.

Note the road sign for bowls and putting green !

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