Forums Forums Lost & Found Hoylake lifeboat open day this Sunday??

i do enough volunteering, why dont you go volunteer

As per the poster this event on Monday not Sunday

Gutted. Some of us have to work Unfortunately I don't get bank holidays off unless I book it or it's my day off shift wise.

Hope everyone has a great day though.

But that costs money mate

went down today, their frantically setting up lol, shud be good tomorrow

Shame about the weather

wasnt too bad, shame there wasnt more people there

Yes I really enjoyed it and whilst there were quite a few people there (in fact more than I'd expected), in previous years there were often many more than this. I remember the queues of traffic going back along the A553 Birkenhead Road for a couple of miles and the hordes of people that used to gather around the old lifeboat station to watch the aircraft displays. Sadly and as expected the Red Arrows understandably could not perform this time and the weather wasn't great. Also with other events going on, it all may have resulted in reduced attendance. Also, they don't seem to have the micro-lights any more do they? (unless I missed them).

I hope that next year, the weather is more favourable and also that the Red Arrows will be back again.

Good to see though that of the people who were there, most seemed to be enthusiastically donating either directly, or by buying things or playing the various games and raffles etc..

It is unfortunate though that the amount of donations that this event generates can depend on things like the weather, so I hope they are more lucky next year!

I always walk to the event, there and back from Birkenhead (one of my hobbies is hiking). Instead of paying train fare, I'd rather give the money to the RNLI.

Anyway, I took some photos, will upload a few shortly.

Did anyone else get a wave from the stunt plane pilot?.

In this dice game, you had to roll 7 sixes. It was a bit of fun to donate a quid.


Quite like these planters, fashioned in the shapes of various animals.


I bought one of these Red Arrows hand-made fridge magnets. Proceeds go to the friends of the Red Arrows.


This car could be won. Funny that the reg plate said "WIND" and it was a little bit windy today.


Spidermen


One of the many vehicles in use by the RNLI


The petition to save Liverpool coastguard


The old lifeboat station, now the museum


Model lifeboat inside the museum


The new lifeboat station




There were some aircraft displays


Fairground


Stuffed toys


Ribble bus

Great pictures of the stunt pilot, Kev!

Thanks Paul. Yours are great too. You covered the event well. The weather turned terrible when I was there. I hardly got the camera out.

Thanks, yes it wasn't the best weather for photography was it?

Nearly got rain drops on the lens of my compact camera a couple of times, had to put the camera away for a while. The wind was blowing the rain sideways a bit.

I was there quite early and when I left, there were a few more heavy showers on the way back.

Just glad to get some photos.