Bickerstaffe

After more than 30 years of operation in Bickerstaffe Street, the family-run Spex4Less relocated to Ormskirk in August as its owners believed the business would be "unsustainable" during the regeneration works in St Helens town centre.

Katie Bickerstaffe was appointed co-chief exec two years ago and has helped oversee a major turnaround in the High Street giant's fortunes.

Katie Bickerstaffe was appointed co-chief executive two years ago and has helped oversee a major turnaround in the High Street giant’s fortunes.

Later it moved into a more pastoral form, like Isaac Bickerstaffe's Love in a Village (1763) and Shield’s Rosina (1781), using more original music that imitated, rather than reproduced, existing ballads.

The mayor of Blackpool, Sir John Bickerstaffe, was so impressed on seeing the Eiffel Tower at the 1889 exposition that he commissioned a similar tower to be built in his town.