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View AllThe women of Port Sunlight War Memorial
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…
Port Sunlight’s lost golf course
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…
Memories of the Edwardian Worker’s Cottage
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?…
Lever and Freemasonry
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…