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Bebington

Much of the Wirral’s Merseyside is heavily industrialised but a dramatic exception is Port Sunlight near Bebington. This model village was created in 1888 by William Hesketh Lever, later 1st Viscount Leverhulme, to house the workers in his soap factory and was named after his most famous product, Sunlight Soap. Leverhulme wanted to provide “a new Arcadia, ventilated and drained on the most scientific principles”. Some thirty architects were employed to create the individually designed rows of rustic cottages and the whole village is now a Conservation Area. The history of the village and its community is explored at the Port Sunlight Heritage Centre where there are scale models of the village, a Victorian port and Sunlight House, original plans for the building and displays of period advertising and soap packaging. A major attraction is the Lady Lever Art Gallery which houses a magnificent collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings by Millais and Rosetti, portraits by Gainsborough and Reynolds, dramatic landscapes by Turner and Constable, an impressive Wedgwood collection and some superb pieces of 18th century furniture. The gallery, which was founded by William hesketh lever in 1922 in memory of his wife Elizabeth, also has a gift shop and a popular tea room, the Lady Lever Café.