A Guide to Port Sunlight Village Hubbard Edward
A Guide to Port Sunlight Village Hubbard Edward The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key…
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A Guide to Port Sunlight Village Hubbard Edward
The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key individuals and an increase in the number of illustrations. Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) in 1888 for the factory workers of his firm of Lever Brothers. The model industrial village of Port Sunlight was founded by the soap manufacturer W. H.
This guide considers the village in its historical context, with particular emphasis on the planning and architectural aspects. The village was acclaimed from the first as exemplifying the best in English town planning and house design, and greatly influenced subsequent industrial villages such as Bournville, and the garden city movement more generally. It explains the social and visual significance of Port Sunlight and the reasons for its being unique in the history of town planning, as well as looking
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