West Kirby Remembers

An annual exhibition marking Remembrance, drawing on the museum's collection of wartime local history.

West Kirby Remembers
Photo: Mark D. Baxter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

West Kirby Remembers is held annually around Remembrance, drawing on the museum's own collection of wartime local history — photographs, ephemera and personal stories connected with West Kirby and Hoylake.

West Kirby Remembers exhibition poster, 2023

It sits alongside the town's wider Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial on Grange Hill — read more about the memorial and West Kirby's wartime history in the museum's Research section.

Plan ahead

Bringing a group, or tracing local history?

Group visits

Bring a group to the museum

Clubs, schools, historical societies and social groups are welcome by arrangement — £2 per head, up to 20 people, with two weeks' notice.

Book a group visit

Research Group

Researching West Kirby's past?

Our Research Group holds decades of local material — including records of who lived and worked in individual houses and shops across the village. Genuine enquiries are welcome.

Contact the Research Group