Bromborough Pool, also known as Bromborough Pool Village and Price's Village, is a village within the
Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
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,
Merseyside
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, England, to the north of
Bromborough. It is situated on the
Wirral Peninsula
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, to the south of
Bebington
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and to the north of
Eastham.
Before
local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the
urban district of Bebington, within the county of
Cheshire
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.
Model village
Bromborough Pool was developed from 1853–58 as a "
model village
A model village is a mostly self-contained community, built from the late 18th century onwards by landowners and business magnates to house their workers. "Model" implies an ideal to which other developments could aspire. Although the villages ...
" for the workers at the factory of
Price's Patent Candle Company.
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
*
Listed buildings in Bromborough Pool
References
Further reading
*
* Watson, Alan (1966). ''Price's Village: A Study of a Victorian Industrial and Social Experiment''.
External links
{{commons category, Bromborough Pool
Price's Village and Port SunlightA History of Price's Candles
Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral