Accommodation Gallery

Port Sunlight - a workers utopia

Page from The Illustrated London News with photographs reporting on the model factory village of Port Sunlight on the Wirral, near Birkenhead. Established by William Hesketh Lever, later Lord Leverhulme, the village provided spacious accommodation and numerous amenities for workers at the Lever Brothers soap factory. Images of the schools built by labour, the open air swimming pool, a Sunday School procession and the picturesque houses all testify to the wholesome way of life enjoyed by Port Sunlight's inhabitants. Date: 1905

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A 1930s photograph of Mount Buffalo Chalet, an icon for quality holidays in the 1920s and 1930s

A 1930s photograph of Mount Buffalo Chalet, an icon for quality holidays in the 1920s and 1930s. Built in 1910 it was at first run by the Victorian Railways; guests would travel on mules from the station below up the mountain. Plans are afoot to modernise the building; formal dress and dining are unlikely to be returned. Mount Buffalo National Park, northeast Victoria, Australia

Advertisement for hammocks for workhouse vagrant wards

A 1900 advertisement from the Grantham company of Carlton * Co. for the supply of hammocks to workhouses for use in their casual wards which provided overnight accommodation for tramps and vagrants. Date: 1900

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1900, Accommodation, Advertisement, Carlton, Casual, Company, Grantham, Hammocks, Over Night, Provided, Supply, Tramps, Wards, Workhouses