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6 unusual facts about Port Sunlight


Gwernymynydd

Little remains of its industrial history; the worked-out Cambrian limestone quarry was once owned by Lever Brothers of Port Sunlight, manufacturers of VIM, a scouring powder made from the silicone sandstone quarried here, which was ideal for the purpose.

Leverhulme Memorial

The Leverhulme Memorial stands to the west of the Lady Lever Art Gallery on the junction of Windy Bank and Queen Mary's Drive, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, England.

Operation Freshman

Training also took place at Port Sunlight, where they were shown how to destroy large condensers of the kind found in the plant.

Port Sunlight

It starred Phyllis Dare, one of the most popular pin-ups of the Edwardian era, and was written by Paul Alfred Rubens.

The Sunshine Girl

Port Sunlight is the real life suburb on which the setting of the musical is based.

William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

William Hesketh Lever is interred with his parents at Christ Church, Port Sunlight.


Company town

The creation of model company towns was particularly evident in Britain during the latter half of the nineteenth century with the creation of Saltaire (1851), Bournville, Port Sunlight, Creswell and New Earswick (1901) and coincided with the housing-reform movement, which emphasised the improvement of housing for the working class.

Joseph Cyril Bamford

He built Rocester along the lines of Bourneville and Port Sunlight into an effective marketing home for the company, and an efficient production centre and a virtual "home" for his employees.

Thornton Manor

His son, Sir William Forwood, chairman of Liverpool Overhead Railway, let the house to William Lever (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme), builder of the soap factory and model village at Port Sunlight, in 1888.


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Christ Church, Port Sunlight

Port Sunlight was a model village built for the workers at the soap factory of Lever Brothers, founded by William Lever.