Off Yer Trolley ~ Prescot Traditional Cache

Off Yer Trolley caches are intended to provide fairly easy drive-by cache.

During 1891, a company was formed that changed the industrial landscape of Prescot for a hundred years. Joseph and Jacob Atherton established the British Insulated Wire Company who manufactured paper insulated cables. The following year they installed electric street lighting in Prescot and lighting inside Knowsley Hall, the ancestral home of the Earls of Derby. The company expanded rapidly In 1902, the company merged with the Telegraph Manufacturing Company and became British Insulated and Helsby Cables Limited and in 1925 the firm was renamed British Insulated Cables Limited. The final merger in 1945 was with a company called Callender’s of Erith and the business then became known as British Insulated Callender’s Cables (known by the more familiarly abbreviation, BICC) employing numerous workers not only from within Prescot but all the surrounding townships as well. The main BICC factory in Prescot closed in early 1990s with smaller premises sold-off to other companies. The factory site is now the location of the Prescot branch of Tesco.