HISTORIC FOOTAGE | British Insulated Callender's Cables | c.1991

Re-edited for Born & Raised in Prescot - Historic amateur film footage taken at The British Insulated Callender's Cables, Prescot, Lancashire. c.1991.
Edited by Philip Battle - May 2024.
From original film by George Edwards - VHS transfer
Initial transfer edit by Gordon Chadwick.
Born & Raised in Prescot Facebook Page - / prescote

[@mav3783]

4:50 in looks like Sewell Street in the background this must be tesco

[@francisraffle2948]

@@mav3783 I went the the church school in Beaconsfield Street and I used to walk down box entry going home from school I used to walk past the bi where the little trains where on Manchester Road our family called it the train way I lived in molyneux drive I'd see the trains and then cross over onto hall lane and there they build the new church school St Mary and St Paul's I used to go down the big hill onto the field and before I knew it i was home mum moved into our house in 1950 it was just built and was told the church school was going to be built on that land its on now well it was built but I was in the last year of secondary school 1969 we went a had a look round the school some girls who went their xxxxx

[@francisraffle2948]

Poor prescot died when the bi closed it must of been the biggest employer in prescot mum used to work their so did my grandma mums mum i lot of kids went in at 12 oclock for their dinner i was one of those went to school when the 8 oclock buzzer went all the is in prescotnow are shops cafes restaurants a theatre and retail parks