Many thanks to Brian Jagger, Rob Howard and Laura Bonnett for taking these photos at the recent Eighth Annual Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts. Local schoolchildren recite “Macavity the Mystery Cat,” from TS Eliot’s...
Read moreSchools’ Artwork (2012 Prescot Festival)
Three local schools contributed artwork for exhibition at this year’s Prescot Festival. Below: impressive displays from Evelyn Community Primary School, St Mary & St Paul’s Church of England Primary School and Knowsley Park Centre...
Read moreShort Story Winner Announced
The winner of the first ever Prescot Festival Short Story Competition was announced last month. We are delighted to award the £100 prize to Maureen McEvoy, of Haydock, for her story Last Train From Lime Street. The judges enjoyed the sense of...
Read moreThank You!
We’d like to offer dozens of individuals, organisations and businesses our gratitude for their contribution to an excellent Eighth Annual Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts. Thank-you to…
Read moreBritish Weather Can’t Keep a Good Festival Down
(Press Release) Neither the football nor the threat of rain kept music lovers from the Prescot Festival on Sunday night. Concertgoers packed into the Parish Church for the Diamond Jubilee-themed finale to 10 days of arts and music in the historic...
Read moreFestival Diary: Day 9
The catering team at St Paul’s Church outdid themselves last night with a delicious hot pot supper. Liverpool folk band The Travelling People provided the music for the barn dance, and the crowds loved it — despite their exhaustion by...
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