Port Sunlight, Post Office Corner c.1960
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Photo ref: P188066
Photo of Port Sunlight, Post Office Corner c.1960

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Port Sunlight was the dream of William Lever, a man who believed that there was good in everyone; only the best would do for his workers and employees. He moved his soap-making factory from Warrington to Bromborough Dock around 1888, and then set about building homes for the workers. The estate covered 770 acres (including the works); when it was finished, it housed around 6,000 people. Every cottage was said to be different, and many different architects were employed to help turn a swampy muddy creek into a wonderful Garden Village. Here we see a few of those workers' houses and the post office.

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A Selection of Memories from Port Sunlight

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Port Sunlight

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I was born in 1958. My father was in the RAF. His mother, my grandmother lived at 6 Jubilee Crescent Port Sunlight. Whenever we moved from one RAF camp to another we would stay at my Nanas for a couple of weeks, while the house we were moving to was vacant. How I loved it there. Always so much to do. Well it seemed as if there was. My sister and I would play around the memorial, the lovely gardens. I ...see more
This photo of the art gallery reminds me of how we used to go rolling down the banks. Lots of children did this regularly and as you went towards the back of the gallery, the banks got steeper! It could be quite alarming, yet exhilarating at the same time! There was a statue outside the back of the art gallery which is now unseen. The other game was to walk around the ledges and then jump off. You could break ...see more
have just spent a wonderful hour looking through the photographs of Port Sunlight, they have brought back so many memories that are as clear as day still to me. I first came to live in the village with an aunt and uncle in1939 ,so of course the war years were quite prevellent in my experience. I lived in Greendale Road, near the junction with Bolton Road (number 72). It was opposite the tie bridge ...see more