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[JOHNALLAN]

Hi

I was just browsing through the info on the Hope and Anchor when I spotted the entry referring to George Glover owning Prescot Cables sometime in the 60s. I knew George in the late 50s and early 60s, he worked in the Accesories Div of the BI. His dad owned a shop somwher in Ashton in Makerfield. My overiding memory of George was that he got a very expensive Sports Car for his 21st birthday, I was still on a bike.

[stephen nulty]

Hello John, and welcome to the forum.

There are quite a few threads about Prescot History, so why not have a read through and let us have your thoughts on those as well.

[Alan]

My memory of that area where Cables played dates back to the early 1990s when Prescot Panthers RLFC formerly Highfield, formerly Runcorn, formerly Huyron, formerly Liverpool City formerly Liverpool Stanley and so on moved there from Hoghton Road, Sutton under Geoff Fletcher. The clubhouse stank of bad drains, the showers rarely worked, the grandstand on the touchline was condemned and the pitch was like a ploughed field

[stephen nulty]

"The clubhouse stank of bad drains, the showers rarely worked, the grandstand on the touchline was condemned and the pitch was like a ploughed field "

Sounds about right, Alan.

[jvy20]

JOHNALLAN, on 24 January 2012 - 11:23 AM, said:

Hi

His dad owned a shop somwher in Ashton in Makerfield.

Rings a bell - I think it was a furniture shop

[vinceprince]

There was a massive fire at BICC on the main Prescot to Whiston Road (A57??) just past Kemble Street going towards Whiston & opposite the Builders place , the front of the BICC building was whitewashed, at least 6 fire engines attended, the place was gutted