“Six civic dignitaries, idiots all, heading out to Hilbre – I wouldn’t go that way”
– Baguette Dilemma For The Booker Prize Guy
So… what do we know about Hilbre?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“Six civic dignitaries, idiots all, heading out to Hilbre – I wouldn’t go that way”
– Baguette Dilemma For The Booker Prize Guy
So… what do we know about Hilbre?
Dirk Hofman
The light from the country’s shortest lighthouse shines from Hilbre.
5 July 2015
dickhead in quicksand
“From Blacon Point to Hilbre, a squirrel might leap from tree to tree.” I somehow doubt it nowadays.
5 July 2015
Warden Hodges
Does look closer from Red Rocks than West Kirby but as the great man says ‘ I wouldn’t go that way’.
5 July 2015
THIS LEADEN PAUL
Mentioned in passing in the Domesday Book (q.v.); “Wirral Council said they have had difficulty finding a ranger prepared to live without mains electricity or running water on the island.” No Tesco Express there either (yet).
6 July 2015
Duke of Westminster
Civic dignatories of a different kind (RNLI people decked out like David Hasselhof in 4x4s and on quad bikes) now patrol the foreshore stopping idiots (or non-idiots who realise they will get their feet wet and are quite happy to wade across the shallow water as it retreats) from going anywhere near quicksand.
1 September 2015
Mr. Abelazar woozle
I’ve just gone for a quick nosey at the place in satellite view on Google maps and for some curious reason, the western half of the Wirral is rendered in slightly greenish sepia tones….
1 September 2015
this leaden paul
Even once you’ve got there safely, it’s still not free from peril :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-35942478
3 April 2016
EXXO
My old folks went to look at a flat in Spindrift Court yesterday. Reckoned the view of the Dee Estuary, the Clwydian Hills and Hilbre was the only thing going for it. Even on a clear day they couldn’t see the Point.
22 April 2016
dr desperate
“Then we waded at low tide to Hilbre Island
and we marvelled at scores of thousands of waders –
Sanderling, Knot, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Curlew and Dunlin.”
(From ‘Laertidean’, by the Liverpool poet Peter Reading.)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry describes Reading’s verse as “strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical”. He attended Alsop High School in Walton (as did Alexei Sayle, Ian McCulloch and Tranmere favourite and current Futsal manager Kenny Irons).
27 June 2019
WARDeN Hodges
Ah Alsop.
Had a few scuffles with them on the Walton/Bootle border 1984.
My (now) best mate went there.
27 June 2019
Pop-Tart mark
Happy birthday Julie from the old Yahoo Group. Hope you had a great day and that the RNLI were not required.
Probably no bad thing that the alehouse on Hilbre closed down. 2 centuries ago but still discussed at Wirral CAMRA like it was 2 years. Apparently the seaweed coffee mild was to drown for.
31 July 2021