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KING EDWARD VI CAMP HILL SCHOOL FOR BOYS
GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT CHESTER - 2000 |
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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
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7A - PRICETOWN
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Pricetown.
A small planned village to house the workers of the Price candle factory.
They relocated the factory from the squalor of Battersea in London to
the rural idyll of Brombrough Pool on the Wirral
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The
first houses were built in 1853. This planned factory village is built
nearly 40 years before Port Sunlight. Unfortunately the burdon of the
expense of the village led to owners and benefactors losing their control
of the business.
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These
houses provided a sharp contrast to the living conditions of the nearby
Liverpudlians. Many of their London workers moved to the Wirral with
the Wilson family. The Wilson brothers had a passion for cricket. Central
to the village is a large cricket pitch.
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This
image shows the view across the village green towards the manager's
houses. The factory made candles sold as Prices' candles. Sadly the
owners, the Wilson brothers died peniless having lost their wealth in
building the village which coincided with a reduced trade in candles.
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The
Wilson brothers ensured the village had social ameneties - a church,
a school and a village hall.
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