A guide for families in Maghull and Lydiate who have started to wonder whether someone they love could benefit from a little extra help at home. Written honestly, without pressure, from experience.
Frank Hornby lived in Maghull. The man who gave the world Meccano, Hornby trains and Dinky Toys spent his most productive years in a house on Station Road, and the town has never quite stopped being proud of it. There is a school named after him, a Wetherspoons named after him, and a quiet sense that this unassuming town north of Liverpool has always contained more than it lets on.
Select Home Care Services provides home help and companionship in Maghull & Lydiate — meals, shopping, housekeeping, appointments and company — at a standard rate of £33 per hour.
That understatement runs through the whole of Maghull and Lydiate. The Leeds–Liverpool Canal drifts through both, walked daily by residents who have known its towpath for decades. Lydiate keeps its village feel — the Scotch Piper, said to be the oldest inn in Lancashire, still stands on Southport Road. Maghull grew around its station and its square, and generations of families have settled here and stayed.
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Maghull and Lydiate sit together at the northern edge of Merseyside — close enough to Liverpool for a lifetime of work and family ties, far enough to keep their own quieter character. Maghull has its square, its station, its schools and its long residential avenues. Lydiate holds on to something older: a village strung along Southport Road, with the canal on one side and farmland never far away.
Long-term residents have their own relationship with this place that goes deeper than any landmark. The towpath their feet know without thinking. The neighbours who have been part of the same avenue for decades. The morning routine that has been the same morning routine for years. These are the things that make Maghull and Lydiate feel like home in a specific, irreplaceable way.
Practical help in Maghull and Lydiate often means getting to appointments at the GP or Aintree University Hospital, help with shopping at Central Square, meals prepared at home, and regular company. If your helper drives you, mileage is charged as shown on our Pricing page.
For older adults in Maghull and Lydiate, the desire to remain here — in the home they know, near the canal, within the community they have been part of for years — is almost universal. What gradually threatens that is not any single thing, but the accumulation of small practical difficulties that, left unaddressed, shift the balance.
We cover the whole of Maghull and Lydiate within L31. If you are unsure whether your road falls within our area, please call us and we will confirm immediately.
Select Home Care Services was founded by senior carer Anita and registered nurses Natalie and Nicola. We provide home help and companionship. We are not CQC registered, and we do not provide personal care, nursing or medical treatment, or give medication — if that kind of help is needed, we will say so and point you to the right service.
£33 per hour. Every service. Holiday rates published.
No registration fees · Published prices · Minimum visit one hour · No long-term contract
If you have a question not answered here, please call us on 01704 333 188. We are always happy to talk without any pressure.
See All QuestionsThe first call is simply a conversation, with no commitment. We will listen carefully and give you an honest view of whether home help is what is needed. If you decide to go ahead, we arrange a visit to talk through what would help, and agree everything in a simple written agreement.
Some families call us having thought about it for a day. Others have been sitting with the question for months. Either is fine. The conversation will be the same: unhurried, honest and without any pressure.
If we are not the right fit, we will say so — and do what we can to point you in the right direction.