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Port Sunlight is a model village and 'Conservation Area' on the Wirral Peninsula between Lower Bebington and New Ferry. Construction began in 1888; today the village comprises 900 Grade II listed buildings. Named after the popular brand of "Sunlight Soap", Port Sunlight was built by William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925) - later Lord Leverhulme - for the employees of Lever Brothers soap factory (now part of Unilever). Lever personally helped to plan the village and employed nearly thirty different architects in its design. Between 1899 and 1914, 800 houses with a population of 3,500 were built, together with allotments and public buildings, including the Lady Lever Art Gallery, a cottage hospital, schools, a concert hall, open air swimming pool, church, and a temperance hotel. Lever also introduced schemes for welfare, education and the entertainment of his workers, and encouraged recreation and organisations which promoted art, literature, science or music.

The Bridge Inn opened in 1900 as a temperance meeting house. It obtained its licence three years later after a ballot amongst the workers voted for alcohol to be allowed. Originally, there was a bridge here which carried Bolton Road over the tidal arm of Bromborough Pool. Soon after, the creek was dammed and filled in. By 1910, the ground had been raised to road level and the bridge's arch buried from sight beneath the present roadway.

Port Sunlight is a model village and 'Conservation Area' on the Wirral Peninsula between Lower Bebington and New Ferry. Construction began in 1888; today the village comprises 900 Grade II listed buildings. Named after the popular brand of "Sunlight Soap", Port Sunlight was built by William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925) - later Lord Leverhulme - for the employees of Lever Brothers soap factory (now part of Unilever). Lever personally helped to plan the village and employed nearly thirty different architects in its design. Between 1899 and 1914, 800 houses with a population of 3,500 were built, together with allotments and public buildings, including the Lady Lever Art Gallery, a cottage hospital, schools, a concert hall, open air swimming pool, church, and a temperance hotel. Lever also introduced schemes for welfare, education and the entertainment of his workers, and encouraged recreation and organisations which promoted art, literature, science or music.

Designed by Grayson & Old 1896 as part of the model village built by William Lever for his workers at the Sunlight soap factory.

Built between 1901-02 and named after William Lever's wife Elizabeth Ellen Hulme, Hulme Hall was originally used as the Girl's Dining Hall, seating 1,500 girls at any one time. It is now used as a conference, banqueting and wedding centre. It was here, on Saturday 18 August 1962, that Ringo Starr made his first official appearance as drummer in The Beatles (http://magicalbeatletours.com/tour_wirral.htm A Beatle Tour To Wirral).

End terrace house in Cross Street. It is one of eight built in 1896 by Grayson and Ould. The house is Grade II listed, as are nearly all of the houses in Port Sunlight, which was built by William Hesketh Lever (later Viscount Leverhulme) to house his soap factory workers at Lever Brothers.

Part of a row of "cottages", of several hundred built by the philanthropic industrialist Lord Leverhulme. There are lots of different styles of housing, built to accommodate the workforce at the Port Sunlight factory. About 30 architects designed the houses, including Lutyens, and the chief was James Lomax-Simpson, who believed the cottage was the ideal home.

Front door, a window and blue plant pots. Of brick and stone, one of hundreds of beautiful (listed) buildings in a model village built from the late Victorian era onwards.