West Kirby Marine Lake - motor boats

West Kirby Marine Lake - motor boats #757350 14th Jan 2013 12:06pm
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 60 Chester City Centre RamblingJack OP Member
OP RamblingJack Member Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 60 Chester City Centre	Does anyone know when the motor boat hire started/ended? I think the hire of motor boats stopped sometime before the rowing boat hire stopped - maybe it was due to a fuel crisis of the time? Any picures of the hire boats out there??

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Re: West Kirby Marine Lake - motor boats RamblingJack #766448 9th Feb 2013 6:20pm
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 60 Chester City Centre RamblingJack OP Member
OP RamblingJack Member Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 60 Chester City Centre	I'm rather surprised that no-one has responded to my query - maybe I can 'help things along' by saying that I've now found a couple of my own fotos, dated 1977, which show the motorboats "anchored out" in strings, as they always had to be when there was a high tide. Surely someone remembers when they stopped running? (I was living out of the area in the eighties)

Re: West Kirby Marine Lake - motor boats RamblingJack #766641 10th Feb 2013 12:23pm
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 4,868 shropshire chriskay Forum Veteran
chriskay Forum Veteran Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 4,868 shropshire	I'm surprised too, Jack; surely someone must have the answers. Carpe diem.