We visited the Lady Lever Gallery in Port Sunlight which Lord Lever built and named after his wife (what a good man!!) As Port Sunlight is only a small village we didn't expect to see too much in the gallery, the gallery was Lord Levers personal collection of art and artefacts. The building itself was beautiful, huge ceilings and very ornate. (It can be seen in the photo on the right in the distance). There were huge rooms filled with original pieces of furniture from the 19th century, huge sculptures, paintings, just an amazing array of different things. There was a chinese punch bowl which was really large and looked liked a normal very decorated punch bowl from today and it was actually dated 50 years before Australia was discovered!!! To think someone over here was already partying and drinking punch and we hadn't even been discovered yet!!
There was a whole room set aside for Lord Lever's Wedgwood Collection which had heaps of different pieces including three of the last four remaining full fireplace surrounds left in the world!! There was pieces of roman glass from the first century and a collection of greek urns which were in excellent condition and one of them was dated 500 years BC!!! We intended having a look at the gallery then walking around the village but we were just in awe of the whole gallery and ended up spending most of the afternoon in there. And entry to the gallery was Free! Amazing.
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