The 'forgotten' model village where 19th-Century workers escaped overcrowded slums

Share Save Add as preferred on Google Angela Ferguson Bromborough Pool BBC/Angela Ferguson Tour guide Mike Christiansen said Bromborough Pool, which includes this Grade II-listed village hall built in 1858, was a "forgotten village" in contrast with nearby Port Sunlight While Port Sunlight on the Wirral is a well-known example of an industrial model village where workers lived to escape Victorian slums, another model village close by actually predates it by more than three decades.

Bromborough Pool, founded in 1853, is less well known than Port Sunlight, and local historian Elizabeth Davey said "even Wirral residents are not quite sure what is there".

The garden village, a planned community, was founded by Price's Patent Candle Factory to enable workers to escape overcrowded and disease-ridden industrial slums.

Mike Christiansen, who has researched its history, said it was a "forgotten village", despite being the second such village to be created in Britain.