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PLUSONE #387409 11th Feb 2010 3:29am
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Originally Posted by PLUSONE
Both pishing ourselves laughing at descriptions laugh laugh. Great pics too. By the way, did any of kimpri passengers see the peregrine falcon type bird chill-axing on the fence. End of a41/ m53 roundabout?
Wow! It was just wow!
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Port Sunlight & Bromborough Pool would go well together.
it is then! TIME/DATE TO FOLLOW!

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Port Sunlight & Bromborough Pool would go well together.



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Port Sunlight & Bromborough Pool would go well together.
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Originally Posted by Softy_Southerner
Port Sunlight & Bromborough Pool would go well together.
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Being a bit 'girly' and it is only a suggestion..... Port Sunlight is really beautiful when the daffodils are out but that' not until end March / early April. But we wouldn't want to wait that long so if anyone fancied doing it then we would need to do somewhere in between. OR.......... you can just ignore me raftl

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Originally Posted by Softy_Southerner
Originally Posted by Softy_Southerner
Port Sunlight & Bromborough Pool would go well together.
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Being a bit 'girly' and it is only a suggestion..... Port Sunlight is really beautiful when the daffodils are out but that' not until end March / early April. But we wouldn't want to wait that long so if anyone fancied doing it then we would need to do somewhere in between. OR.......... you can just ignore me raftl


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Originally Posted by TRANCENTRAL

your officially ignored laugh raftl



No change there then wink
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right peps date and time sorted cool

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HISTORY

In 1887, Lever began looking for a new site on which he could expand his soap-making business, at that time based in Warrington. He purchased 56 acres (230,000 m2) of unused marshy land at the site which became Port Sunlight, which was relatively flat, allowed space for expansion, and had a prime location between the River Mersey and a railway line.

The garden village was founded to house his factory workers. Lever personally helped to plan the village, and employed nearly thirty different architects. Between 1899 and 1914, 800 houses with a population of 3,500 were built, together with allotments and public buildings including the Lady Lever Art Gallery, a cottage hospital, schools, a concert hall, open air swimming pool, church, and a temperance hotel. He also introduced schemes for welfare, education and the entertainment of his workers, and encouraged recreation and organisations which promoted art, literature, science or music.

Lever's stated aims were "to socialise and Christianise business relations and get back to that close family brotherhood that existed in the good old days of hand labour." He claimed that Port Sunlight was an exercise in profit sharing, but rather than share profits directly, he invested them in the village. He said, "It would not do you much good if you send it down your throats in the form of bottles of whisky, bags of sweets, or fat geese at Christmas. On the other hand, if you leave the money with me, I shall use it to provide for you everything that makes life pleasant – nice houses, comfortable homes, and healthy recreation."[5]

The historical significance of Port Sunlight lies in its unprecedented combination of model industrial housing, providing materially decent conditions for working people, with the architectural and landscape values of the garden suburb, influenced by the ideas of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Each block of houses was designed by a different architect. The backs of any of the houses cannot be seen, and each house is unique. In terms of architectural features, there is half-timbering, carved woodwork and masonry, pargetting (ornamental plaster work) moulded and twisted chimneys and leaded glazed patterns. Some houses were built in Flemish style, with bricks imported from Belgium.


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Yes why not.

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I can't make the 28th as I'm in Devon that week end frown (Missing the pub meet as well)

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I can't make the 28th as I'm in Devon that week end frown (Missing the Pub meet as well)

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Thanks for the offer TC but that's not fair on everyone else. I'll be there for the next one!!


Oh! BTW - when is the next one? wink

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can't put me name down yet, got a hectic life atm with me new apartment being delayed by United Utilities etc, might be moving in that weekend.

Will turn up if I can make it.

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Originally Posted by MattLFC
can't put me name down yet, got a hectic life atm with me new apartment being delayed by United Utilities etc, might be moving in that weekend.

Will turn up if I can make it.

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Hope to see ya matt mate!

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WE STILL DOING THIS WALK OR A MYSTERY WALK IN BIRKENHEAD? wink
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