A picture-perfect village with storybook houses, famous scones and a rich history. Locals say it’s like nowhere else - and ...

Landing a job at Port Sunlight’s soap factory must have been a big deal. Industrialist William Lever began building a garden village for the workers of his factory in the Wirral in 1888 — and ...

Port Sunlight is a pocket of history in the ... own right for its unique history since it was first founded by William Hesketh Lever in 1888. The ‘soap king’ was Bolton-born industrialist ...

And it had. Port Sunlight, created by William Hesketh Lever, is one of the UK’s best-known model villages. Named after a brand of laundry soap produced at the neighbouring factory, it was ...

A major £300,000 restoration is planned for a boating pond and fountain which have been dry for five years. A planning application to revamp the Grade-II listed Boating Pond and Sea Piece Fountain in ...

Which? said: “Port Sunlight was built by the Sunlight Soap mogul William Hesketh Lever to house his workers in a community of cottages and leafy boulevards". What makes it so special?

Peaceful Merseyside village Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 by industrialist William Hesketh Lever who was later known as Lord Leverhulme. As part of a business model he termed “prosperity ...

A planning application to revamp the Grade-II listed Boating Pond and Sea Piece Fountain in Port Sunlight Village ... The model village was created by William Lever for soap factory workers.