THE GOOD OLD B.I. | Town Walk | Prescot 

Brought back memories of my childhood in the sixties. Used to walk home from school in Scotchbarn Lane, along Bridge Road by the BICC buildings. Remember the railway sidings and seeing a red diesel shunting engine and small steam engine. School children would shout "Can you give us a toot Mister ?". My Uncle worked in the WIre Mills Division in Sewell Street,😜

My Dad worked at the BI all his working life,love your videos,they bring back so many memories,Now living in New Milton Hants.Thankyou Phill from an 80 year old Prescotion.

Brought back some amazing memories and was thinking it never used to be that green! Worked in the office on the Manchester Rd site in the early 2000s when it was Pirelli Cables. Much of the BI had already been demolished but there was still a small manufacturing site at Manchester Rd. There was a bridge between the offices where the garden centre is now and the factory. Used to love going across to the canteen for breakfast and often across to Tesco on Cables retail park for lunch, of course the name was a tribute to what used to be there. Hundreds of years of history demolished and replaced with cheap generic houses that will be falling apart in 30 years if they're lucky. Like you I also can't imagine how contaminated that land is

Served my time as an apprentice fitter in the AD, or accessories division, later renamed Components. Many happy memories there.

My parents & grandparents worked here, as did I, and I met my future husband here.

Enjoyable video. Jogged my memory with the old photos. Being born and raised in Prescot (William Street) the B I buzzer and 'Box Entry' as we knew it were the sound track and play ground in my childhood. Thanks for the memories. P S I noted Gordon Chadwicks name in connection with some of the BICC films, is this the same Gordon Chadwick that lived at 3 William Street? Peter Alcock

Brilliant vlogg .if j had a 10p for everytime I'd walked up and down station road going to Prescot church schoolin Beaconsfields Street my mum said a long time ago if the bi shut Prescot would die and i sometimes walked down box entry as I knew it on to sewell street and past the bi where the trains ran we called jt the train way I crossed the road jnto Hall Lane and went down the big hill onto waste land that they built bryerroad school I was brought up inmolyneux drive and when mum dad moved jn the brand new house they said a schòol was going to be built it was in1969 it was finished when the new school was finished and pupils being taught their I went to have a look round it with other old pupils .oh yes thebi made copper not steel love fran xxx❤

Cables is where the huge copper coils and moving cranes where, also the huge furnaces that where fired up day and night, made a very eerie noise at night. You missed the dining rooms, the club and the computer offices on Warrington Rd and the original head office off Carr Lane bridge was it?

Love your videos. They all take me back. I left Whiston secondary in 71. Now live in Somerset . All my family worked for the BI. Many thanks Bill Morgan

Great video as always . My Dad was a plumber at BI either side of WW2. He retired 1981, and lived on to 2000, so he did see many of the changes. It's a long time since I lived in Prescot, so I had to pause the video many times to focus on the locations and think back. Thanks again !

Great video mate. Many memories of this area. Used to lived in Whiston until 1989 and used to drink and shop in Prescot. My dad used to work in the BICC factory and my mum used to clean in the offices at the top of Manchester Road. The Engine pub, always I have memories of coming back from the Milk Cup final replay at Maine Road and drinking to the early hours in there.. We also used to have Christmas parties, as kids. At the BICC Social Club. It’s criminal that they knocked everything down.. ☹

Me mam n most if not all her family worked at the bicc McEgans

Great vid. A total tragedy that no trace remains of such an important company but unfortunately all our council wants to do.is knock everything down and build 3 and 4 bedroom houses.

What is the music at the end and where can I find it?

Wonder if Steley way is named after a person?

Lived in Prescot (Pottery Fields and Hayes Avenue) from 1967 to 1980 and even as a young lad I thought it was an awful place. More than its fair share of want to be scousers and mean minded Prescotians.