Port Sunlight - the Bridge Inn
The Bridge Inn, Port Sunlight. Port Sunlight is a garden village which was founded in 1888 by Lever to house his soap factory workers. In line with his ideas on prosperity-sharing, the building maintenance and upkeep of the village was subsidised with a portion of the profits from Lever Brothers Limited. With his own money, Lever financed the church, technical institute and the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Lever took great pleasure in helping to plan this picturesque garden village and he employed nearly thirty different architects to create its unique style. The Bridge Inn started life as the Temperance Hotel, but then converted to an Inn! It was fasionable for Victorian Industrialist building model villages for their workers to exclude alcohol
