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General Scheme.

Port Sunlight village (founded in 1888), apart from the Works,
covers 222 acres, on which the houses may approach 2,000 for a
population of 10,000. The tenancies of the houses are limited
to employés of the Works. Already over 1,000 houses have been
built or are in process of building, and the length of broad roadways
exceeds five miles. The first block of cottages built in 1888—1889

26. GLADSTONE HALL.

W. & S. OWEN,

Architects.

was reproduced at the Brussels Exhibition of 1910, and was
awarded the Grand Prix. It is intended to limit the number of
cottages to ten per acre, and it is hoped to keep below that
maximum.

The general width of the roadways is 40 feet, giving 24 feet to
the road, and 8 feet for each footpath; but there are roads 48 feet
wide, including footpaths. The paths are flagged along the central
portion only.

In a progressive world, and especially in such a progressive part
of it as Port Sunlight, one cannot hope to give a record which will
for long represent existing facts. The arrangements which have
been made for the benefit of the inhabitants of this village have
necessarily been altered or modified. At the present time the
buildings for general use include Christ Church (No. 6 and Pls.
31—33), an admirable Late Gothic building in a central position,
the Schools, which accommodate about 1,600 children, a Lyceum, a
Cottage Hospital, a Gymnasium (No. 29), an open-air Swimming
Bath (Pl. 26), Post Office (Pl. 19), a Village Inn (No. 36 and
Pl. 24), Village Stores, a Fire Station, the Auditorium, to seat
3,000, the Collegium (No. 11), the Gladstone Hall (No. 26), the

Hulme Hall (No. 25), Co-Partners' Club with billiard rooms and
bowling green (No. 8), a Village Fountain, and, finally, the
Hulme Art Gallery
(Pl. 29), which is
destined to hold
the Public Library
as well as fine collections
of Pictures,
Pottery, and Furniture.

Port Sunlight has
been an object of
attraction to visitors
for years, and this
is not only due to
the interest and
variety of its cottage
houses, and as a
model for town
planners the world
over, but to the
whole-hearted endeavour
to meet all
the practical and
social needs of everyday
life which is
expressed in its
various public buildings.
But another
source of great and
enduring attraction
lies in its Art

27. PARK ROAD BY POETS' CORNER.

Gallery. Here it outdistances every other village of the kind, for
this Art Gallery holds no fortuitous collection of odd things, but
carefully chosen examples of fine art got together by expert
knowledge.
The pictures,
china, furniture,
etc.,
would alone
bring many
visitors to study
such a superb
and finely-housed
collection
of works
of art.