Price's Patent Candle Co Ltd, Bromborough
Other Business Names:
- Price's (Bromborough) Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside, North West, England
Sectors:
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Chemical production
Basic chemicals production
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Chemical production
Candle production
Notes:
Established at Bromborough in 1854, initially as part of Price's Patent Candle Co Ltd of London, to manufacture fatty acids and produce candles, oils for textile production, other lubricants, etc, using imported palm oil from West Africa. This was a green field site and so an industrial village was also erected. By 1900 employing c2,000. In 1937 the Bromborough business was hived off by Prices and sold to Unilever as Price's (Bromborough) Ltd
Publications:
- History of Price's of Bromborough, 1854-1954 by Unknown
- 'Isle of Want'. Reminiscences of life in a nineteenth century factory village by Ellis, Charles P
- Model village at Bromborough Pool by Tarn, J N
- 'Model village at Bromborough Pool' in D R Mills (ed), English Rural Communities. The impact of a specialised economy by Tarn, J N
- Price's Factory at Bromborough Pool by Unknown
- Price's Village. A study of a Victorian industrial and social experiment by Watson, Alan
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Price's (Bromborough) Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside, North West, England
Sectors:
- Chemical production Basic chemicals production
- Chemical production Candle production
Notes:
Established at Bromborough in 1854, initially as part of Price's Patent Candle Co Ltd of London, to manufacture fatty acids and produce candles, oils for textile production, other lubricants, etc, using imported palm oil from West Africa. This was a green field site and so an industrial village was also erected. By 1900 employing c2,000. In 1937 the Bromborough business was hived off by Prices and sold to Unilever as Price's (Bromborough) LtdPublications:
- History of Price's of Bromborough, 1854-1954 by Unknown
- 'Isle of Want'. Reminiscences of life in a nineteenth century factory village by Ellis, Charles P
- Model village at Bromborough Pool by Tarn, J N
- 'Model village at Bromborough Pool' in D R Mills (ed), English Rural Communities. The impact of a specialised economy by Tarn, J N
- Price's Factory at Bromborough Pool by Unknown
- Price's Village. A study of a Victorian industrial and social experiment by Watson, Alan