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My son paid an impromptu visit home from the smoke and we all went for a bit of a hike. Went to Rivington Pike which has quite some history about it which can be read here It is basically a deserted moor which was bought over 100 years ago by Lord and Lady Leverhulme who were in fact Lord and Lady Lever. The hulme bit of their name is actually his wife's maiden name. But yes it is the soap manufacturer who created Port Sunlight and Rivington Pike was where they had a bungalow and decided to create a fanciful place of recreation for their workers. In the middle of nowhere there is the Pike at the top of the hill, a bridge, the 'folly' which is a stone built 3 story summer house and various other ponds and gardens to allow the factory workers to cleanse their lungs and souls no doubt. Sorry the pics are not much cop but I forgot my camera and had to resort to my phone cam. One of the photos shows Winter Hill in the distance
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The whole place was quite odd really even down to the thin bricks that the bridge was built of, they must have had an enormous amount of money to built firstly a metalled road, made of cobblestones all the way to the place then to have all this stone hand carved and transported up into the moors to build the towers and all the outbuildings some of which I did not have time to investigate. That sort of wealth, all from a bit of soap
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My System: Various digiboxes, broken Nokia 9800S, numerous analogue boxes. My lovely little lappy, HP Omnibook 6100 | Nice pics Topper. William Lever was a very interesting man and a real patrician benefactor. Living where I do I am, of course, quite close to Port Sunlight which he built for his employees so that they would all have good quality homes to go home to. He was born Lever but when he was enobled he added his wife's surname, Hulme, to his. When a person is enobled (or knighted) they get to choose the name they wish to be known by. The only proviso is that it has to be different from anyone elses.
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My System: I bet on red. If I lose, I double the bet on red again. I continue with this until I lost everything. Muhuhuhahahahahaaaaarrrgggh | A soap factory would be a good place to laundry dirty money... Anyways, nice pictures, looks like a nice area for a walk
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(just as I was after your last Jade Goody post )
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