[nb 5][1][3] In 1891, he was living at 61 Church Street, Leigh, with his parents, his elder brothers Harold and Herbert, and a servant.

[1][3] According to the Liverpool Daily Post, Prestwich was "one of the school's best students shortly before the war ... obtaining several distinctions, including the Holt Travelling Scholarship".

There he collaborated on a project in Stornoway where he designed alterations to the ballroom of Lews Castle,[17] including an "Adam-style ceiling",[18] and other works in Cheshire and Thornton Hough.

[1] In 1912, Prestwich published a substantial article in the Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser on the subject of the Housing, Town Planning, etc.

In 1936 he was appointed as "consultant in relation to the architectural features of the Central Baths to be erected at Clare Hall, Halifax".

[22] In 1932 he was appointed to the jury panel which chose the winner of West Yorkshire's Best Building Medal Award for that year.

[23] In 1939 he was made a panel architect, appointed to survey buildings in his locality in respect of protective measures during the Second World War.

[24] Early in his career, while still a student, Prestwich was the winner of a 1910 competition "to plan the completion of W. H. Lever's model village at Port Sunlight".

[31] He was organising the building of external air raid shelters for the schools of Widnes, and calling for builders and contractors, in 1941.

[nb 6][1] In 1936, Prestwich designed the Central Swimming Baths, Eastgate and New York Road, Leeds, Yorkshire.

recommended six architects for the job, and Prestwich was chosen by the reputation of his previous plans for Swinton, Pendlebury, Northampton, Tunbridge Wells and Leigh.

[41] However, by November 1938 no foundation stone had been laid, the council and populace were still arguing about the cost of the scheme, and a ministerial inquiry was held in relation to the required loans.

[48][14] The cost later rose to £200,000 (equivalent to £17,934,662.24 in 2023) and comprised a library, fire station, police courts, public assembly hall, and municipal buildings.

[49] Tunbridge Wells assembly hall was opened on 24 May 1939 by Lady Joan Marion Pratt, Marchioness Camden, wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Kent.

[16][51][52][53] The group of Tunbridge Wells police station, courts and library, completed in 1939, comprises two listed buildings.

Its bronze main doors have above them a "semicircular tympanum with classical figures with scales of justice and motto, do well doubt not.

[61] Prestwich designed the Methodist church at Court Hey, Broadgreen, Liverpool, and it was opened when he was in his 69th year, on 19 July 1958, However it was demolished in 1966 to make way for the M62 motorway.

The war memorial was designed in sketch form by Prestwich and completed by his former mentor, architect James Lomax-Simpson, in 1921.

There is a bronze plaque on the shaft, which says: "To the glory of God and in grateful memory of the men of this parish who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914–1918", with the names of the fallen.

It stands on Darley Dale slabs, and is surrounded by a red sandstone wall, which forms part of the design.

It stands in a memorial garden, on a wide, stepped platform or stylobate, and is built in a stylised, Modernist, form of the Classical style.

[67][68] After the design was accepted in 1921, it was described as a "90-foot (27 m) obelisk in the centre of an oblong enclosure with circular ends, to be placed in the southern sunken garden of the Princess Parade, between the Hotel Metropole and the North Pier".

[74] (The memorial) consists of a shaft of masonry resting on a square base, and surmounted by a figure expressive of sorrow for the fallen, holding up a laurel wreath of victory, in honour of the Doncaster men who fell in the war.

Above the front panel are Doncaster's Coat of Arms, and above that the Sword of Sacrifice ... the work was executed in Stancliff stone.

[74]The monument was unveiled on 12 March 1923 by Colonel Charles Carter Moxon, C.M.G., D.S.O., T.D., who had been the commanding officer of the 5th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (K.O.Y.L.I.)

[74][75] A procession marched from the Mansion House, headed by the 5th K.O.Y.L.I., with band playing, followed by the Yorkshire Dragoons, ex-servicemen, and the borough police with their chief constable.

[74] After a speech by Moxon and a dedication of the monument by George Sandford, Archdeacon of Doncaster, the "Last Post" was sounded by buglers.