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For Women’s History Month, we uncover a glimpse of the varied – and perhaps surprising – role female employees played at Lever Brothers’ Port Sunlight factory in the early 20th century. In August 1924, Port…
Explore what a typical childhood was like in Port Sunlight in 1959, the same year the very untypical Pete Burns – who grew up in the village before becoming a pop music icon – was born.
Join us on a dive into Port Sunlight Museum’s collections to discover the history of Remembrance in the village.
Meet John Winder, a familiar face to plenty of Port Sunlight residents over the decades, since arriving as a joiner in 1979. Now, nearly half a century later, John is taking the opportunity to wind…
For World Photography Day, we’re shining a light on the part photography had to play in the story of Port Sunlight. Discover how the artform of photography played its role in all aspects of life in Port Sunlight.
Port Sunlight Village Trust’s collection is always growing, and our latest acquisition couldn’t be more timely as the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris gets underway. We have recently acquired a collection of objects which relate…
by Donna Pearson, genealogist Having stood in awe reading the names of over five hundred men from Lever Brothers’ soap factory who lost their lives in World War I, and then reading the hundred plus…
With Wirral and Merseyside’s many beautiful and world-renowned golf courses, it’s easy to forget that Port Sunlight once it had its very own golf course. The Port Sunlight golf course was located on land now…
The Edwardian Worker’s Cottage provides an opportunity for visitors to Port Sunlight Museum to step back in time to experience everyday life in the village over a century ago. But who used to live there?…
The relevance of Freemasonry to Port Sunlight is more significant than may be realized, thanks to William Hesketh Lever who later became Viscount Leverhulme. Ceremonially cutting the sod in 1888 was the first physical action…
