Yes definitely! The factory was almost squeezed into the space right next to the railway line with a very interesting and slightly chaotic looking cable storage / scrap metal yard built on a patchwork of tarmac which went right up to the boundary fence. As a kid I was always fascinated by railway lines running through industrial estates like Kirkby, Trafford Park or Ellesmere port and my favourite model loco was a Triang 'Port Shunter'. My first memory of seeing a loco live and up close was on a visit to my aunties when I was about six, their house backed onto Golborne sidings and I remember going into the back garden and the sky was filled with a filthy BR Blue class 40 messing about with some freight wagons, been hooked ever since.
The workers at the Prescot Rolling mill were doing that much overtime that they were on more money than the factory manager and after they cut overtime and subsequently asked them to go back to it a while later they couldn't get them to go back onto overtime as they'd become used to doing 'school hours'! I haven't been back to Prescot for many years but am due to go to the Shakespeare theatre next week, I believe the town, or cable town as it was know, is unrecognisable from the BICC days so it should be quite interesting.