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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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Highwood School, Brentwood, Essex

The administration block at Highwood (or High Wood) School, Brentwood, Essex. The school was opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for the treatment of ophthalmia in children. As Highwood Hospital it later served various roles including the care of children with tuberculosis, long-term geriatric patients, and mentally handicapped children

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Margaret Morris (1891 - 1980), British dancer, choreographer and teacher

Margaret Morris (1891 - 1980), British dancer, choreographer and teacher. Photograph s showing her in various poses during her dance as a tree spirit, typical of the Isadora Duncan technique that she advocated. Morris founded the co-educational Margaret Morris School which taught dancing, painting and music and the Sketch advertises the "Children's Season", performances by her students lasting four weeks. Date: 1921

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