All posts tagged "economy"

  • Why Prescot Is on the Up

    They’re building a theatre in Prescot. It will be an authentic replica of a cockpit design by Inigo Jones, the famed 17th-century architect. Its existence will hark back to the late Elizabethan Prescot Playhouse, the first free-standing...

    • Posted May 29, 2018
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  • Shakespeare-inspired Micropub to Open Valentine’s Day

    Prescot’s first micropub will open on Wednesday 14 February. The Bard micropub at 57 High Street officially welcomes its first customers at 4pm on Valentine’s Day. The opening day theme will be ‘Shakespeare in Love.’ Inspired by...

    • Posted February 9, 2018
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  • Prescot Town Centre to Lose HSBC, NatWest Banks

    The HSBC bank on Eccleston Street, Prescot, has closed its doors for the final time. Formerly the Midland Bank, it stood on the junction with Market Place and Church Street. Customers who don’t or can’t use online banking...

    • Posted December 5, 2016
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  • What Will Prescot’s Shakespeare Theatre Look Like?

    If charity Shakespeare North receive planning permission in April, they could be building an Elizabethan-style theatre and college in Prescot town centre. The plans, for the Mill Street Car Park adjacent to the Old Mill pub, would...

    • Posted March 15, 2016
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  • Whiston KFC off the Menu

    Plans to build a fast food drive-thru restaurant and near Whiston Hospital have fallen through. Developers wanted to demolish the Green Dragon pub and build a new complex in its place, with a KFC at its heart, alongside...

    • Posted July 9, 2015
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  • Prescot Bakery on Shortlist of Six in National Competition

    An independent baking company in Prescot has reached the finals of Hotel Indigo’s Flavours of the Neighbourhood competition. After a public vote, The Albion Bakehouse, a home-based business run by Prescotian Nina Halliwell, made a shortlist of six...

    • Posted February 28, 2015
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  • New Poundbakery Opens in Prescot (Plus – Get a Free Pasty!)

    Poundbakery has opened its first shop in Prescot. The bakery, advertising “tasty baking at tasty prices,” replaces Sayers, which closed its cafe and prepared for refurbishment earlier in January. The new store will have no cafe. The...

    • Posted January 30, 2015
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  • Superdrug to Leave Prescot Shopping Centre

    Pharmacy chain Superdrug will be leaving Prescot Shopping Centre this March. It joins clothing outlets M&CO and Dorothy Perkins, who vacated late last year. “It is always difficult seeing tenants leave us,” said mall manager Victoria Nichol....

    • Posted January 19, 2015
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  • Go-ahead for Home Bargains Prescot Superstore

    Home Bargains have received permission to build a store and garden centre on Manchester Road, Prescot. The TJ Morris-owned discount chain, which already has a store in Prescot Shopping Centre, say their plans will save 45 existing jobs,...

    • Posted January 6, 2015
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  • Hello, Prescot! New Shops & Businesses Arrived in Town in 2014

    The editor asked Prescot Online’s Facebook followers to name a few of the shops and businesses that arrived in Prescot, Whiston and Rainhill throughout 2014. Prescot Online congratulates these individuals and companies for investing their money, their passion and...

    • Posted December 31, 2014
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