Bromborough Pool

Bromborough Pool, also known as Bromborough Pool Village and Price's Village, is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England, to the north of Bromborough. It is situated on the Wirral Peninsula, to the south of Bebington and to the north of Eastham.

Bromborough Pool

Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the urban district of Bebington, within the county of Cheshire.

Model village

Bromborough Pool was developed from 1853–58 as a "model village" for the workers at the factory of Price's Patent Candle Company.[1]

The completed village comprised 142 houses with a church, school, institute, shop and library for Price's workforce.

It predates the nearby model village of Port Sunlight just to its north, started in the 1880s.

See also

References
  1. Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971]. Cheshire. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6.

Further reading
  • Darley, Gillian (2007) [1975]. Villages of Vision: A Study of Strange Utopias (Revised ed.). London: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN 9780907123507.
  • Watson, Alan (1966). Price's Village: A Study of a Victorian Industrial and Social Experiment.

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