Port Sunlight

PORT SUNLIGHT

Assets

La région est desservie à la fois par la station de chemin de fer de Bebington et par celle de Port Sunlight, sur la ligne Wirral du réseau Merseyrail. Il y a un service de train régulier vers Chester, Ellesmere Port, et vers Liverpool via Birkenhead.

Population :

Between 1899 and 1914; eight hundred houses were build to welcome tree thousand five hundred people. The population is approximately ,during this period, about tree thousand people.the population is currently about one thousand four hundred fifty. All the population was not constitute just of worker but the workers’ family could live there, because we could find a hospital, some schools, a swimming-pool and all the activities we can find in a great city.

The people, the family lived in unique houses because every houses were build by a different architect. So, they are all different and that, I think it’s very important because that shows the modernity of this concept.

The village has a very good geographical situation for people because it is situate near the river to take the boat and near railway to favor the movement of the produce and of the people.

Lever Brothers

Lever Brothers was a British manufacturer founded in 1885 by William Hesketh Lever (1851–1925) and his brother, James Darcy Lever (1854–1910). The brothers had invested in and promoted a new soap making process invented by chemist William Hough Watson, it was a huge success. Lever Brothers merged with Margarine Unie in 1930 to form Unilever.

Starting with a small grocery business begun by his father, William Lever and his brother James entered the soap business in 1885 by buying a small soap works in Warrington. The brothers teamed up with a Bolton chemist, William Hough Watson, who became an early business partner. Watson invented the process which resulted in a new soap, using glycerin and vegetable oils such as palm oil, rather than tallow.[1] The resulting soap was a good, free-lathering soap, at first named Honey Soap then later named "Sunlight Soap".

Production grow up really quickly and reached great values as 450 tons per week by 1888.

In 1887, Lever Brothers began looking for a new site on which to expand its soap-making business.

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