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- Prescot is one of the oldest towns in Merseyside, and it is believed that an early Christian church was established here in the 7th century. In medieval times Prescot was a thriving market town and the ecclesiastical centre of a large parish covering much of southwest Lancashire.
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Jan 20, 2018 · Prescot is believed to be Anglo-Saxon in origin, with the name ‘ Prescota ‘ – meaning a ‘priest cottage’. It was the centre of an extensive parish, within the West Derby Hundred which...
May 14, 2018 · It is believed to be the oldest surviving route map of Great Britain. Medieval Prescot was at the centre of an extensive parish which comprised of 15 townships. It was the largest parish in the ‘West Derby Hundred’, the ancient administrative unit of South West Lancashire.
Medieval Prescot was at the centre of an extensive parish which comprised of 15 townships. It was the largest parish in the ‘West Derby Hundred’, the ancient administrative unit of South West Lancashire.
- Brief History of Prescot
- Stranded in Prescot 1932
- Police Medals 1937
- Prescot’s Streets in 1989
- Old Photos of Whiston Hospital
The name Prescot is thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxons for priest and cot, meaning the hut or small house owned or occupied by a priest. In the 14th century, William Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre obtained a charter for a three-day market and mobile fair in Prescott beginning on the Wednesday after Corpus Christi. Prescot was home to the Prescot Playh...
This promotional film for BICC in several parts celebrated the effect electricity had made on modern lives and industry. “It will, also, we believe, relieve the householder of any qualms he or she may have when contemplating the wiring of a house”. Reel 1includes some wonderful views of English life almost a century ago. A visit to the electricity ...
In 1937, Lord Derby presented coronation medals to a large number of men, and one woman, employed by the Lancashire Police. Lord Derby was the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire. Prescot Lord Derby (1937) – British Pathé on YouTube
This home video filmed by Albert Jones on 5th July 1989 shows the BICC factory from a number of different viewpoints, before moving to nearby streets. There’s a roadsign to the factory gates, the railway tracks, housing and businesses, a school, the ‘modern’ telephone box, a number of passing and parked cars, and the occasional pedestrian or bus qu...
This video showcases a collection of old photos of Whiston Hospital between the 1880s and 2010, with most of them dating between the 1970s and 1992. Each image is carefully labelled to show the date and location, and sometimes the name of the staff members shown. It includes the parts of the buildings which had been in use in the site’s previous ex...
From the mid-1590s to 1609, Prescot was home to the Prescot Playhouse, a purpose-built Shakespearean theatre, probably located on Eccleston Street. [6] In the sixteenth century it was a small town of about 400 inhabitants, and not much bigger by the late seventeenth century.
whether this picture shows Prescot at the beginning of post-medieval expansion or whether it represents the nadir of a late medieval economic decline. Answers to all three questions would be of significance not just for Prescot but in the study of early Christian origins and town development
