Hoylake Lights, 52-54 Market Street - Hoylake, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 23.550 W 003° 10.625
30U E 488224 N 5915948
This cut out style pub sign shows a lighthouse.
Waymark Code: WM10P51
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/05/2019
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The pub is one of Wetherspoons chain of pubs which usually has pub names of historical interest.
Hoylake is on the coast on the Mersey Estuary and as one would expect the pub sign is of maritime history and their web sit confirms this.
"This is named after the upper and lower lighthouses, known as the Hoylake Lights, built in the 1760s. Only one of the two lights still stands. In 1871, the site of this pub was still an open field. By 1897, it was home to a draper’s and a chandlery. Nine years later, they had made way for a dyer’s, a cleaner’s and a ‘complete funeral furnisher’. The Co-operative Society was the last to occupy these premises, before transformation into Hoylake Lights."
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