Lever Collection

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

A simple device for removing a wart
Contrary to the title of this picture, a complicated and convoluted machine to help a sufferer remove a wart from his head

Main Office Entrance, Port Sunlight. Port Sunlight is a garden village which was founded in 1888 by Lever to house his soap factory workers

The Post Office and Library, Greendale Road, Port Sunlight. Date: circa 1910

Macmillan Bicycle
Macmillans lever-driven bicycle is the first to be fitted with a drive mechanism of any kind

William H Lever
WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER 1ST VISCOUNT LEVER-HULME English soap manufacturer; built (1888-89) model industrial village of Port Sunlight

Cover design, Progress, April 1927 - Lever Brothers magazine, mythological figure in Liverpool Date: 1927

Pocket watches and wristwatches 1929
A selection of pocket watches that register the minutes, seconds and fifth of seconds and a golfers pocket watch that has pure white metal case and also ladies wristwatches with lever moverment

Macmillans Bicycle
Kirkpatrick Macmillan and his early Dandy Horse bicycle

Gentlemens pocket watches with lever movement 1929
Selection of gold gentlemens pocket watches, products for Harrods catalogue jewellery department. Date: 1929

Railwayman - 180 lever railway signal box at Shrewsbury
A railwayman walks across the tracks to the 180 lever railway signal box at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1991

Dead Mans Handle
A dead mans handle is a switch that is automatically operated in case the human operator becomes incapacitated. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Lord Leverhulme
WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, baron LEVERHULME Popular Irish Influential industrialist

Abandoned rural branch line signal box, Worcestershire, England. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

C17th Fire Engine / Dutch
An early fire engine in use in Holland. The first flexible hose was invented by Jan van der Heijden in 1672 in the Netherlands, and a pre-cursor of this may be shown here

Air Rifles Ancient and Modern, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited Date: circa 1910

The 180 lever railway signal box at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Date: 1991

Port Sunlight - Cheshire, Merseyside - Mens Social Club and Bowling Green. Date: circa 1910s

A Parlour House, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Cottage Hospital, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Park Road, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Wood Street, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Greendale Road, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

The Bridge Inn, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

New Chester Road, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Shakespeare's House, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Bolton Road, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Hulme Hall (Girl's restaurant), Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Bridge School, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Primrose Hill old and new, Port Sunlight Village, early 1900s

Cutting soap into bars, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Soap stacked for drying, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Forewomen's room, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Pan Room, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Timber Warehouse, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Ladies rest room, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Dining room kitchen, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Automatic soap packing machines, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Rotary printing machine, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Railway despatch yard, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Steam engine, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Barges laden with soap, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Pumping Station, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Warrington Sunlight Soap factory prior to moving to the Wirral Victorian period

Port Sunlight - soap stacked to dry - early 1900s

Port Sunlight - Electrotyping Department - early 1900s

Port Sunlight - Wharf and Docks - early 1900s

Port Sunlight - The Office East Wing - early 1900s

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