Temperance Billiard Halls
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Temperance Billiard Hall Co. Ltd. was a company founded in 1906 in Pendleton, Lancashire, as part of the wider temperance movement, which built billiard halls in the north of England and London.[1]
Several of the former halls are now Grade II listed buildings, such as the 1910 Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham, London, now somewhat ironically a pub called The Temperance.[2]
The Temperance Billiard Hall built in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, in 1907, also Grade II listed, is now a J D Wetherspoon pub called the Sedge Lynn.[3]
Their first in-house architect was Norman Evans, who designed a dozen and a half halls from 1906 to 1911, including both of the halls mentioned above.[1][2][3]
Thomas Retford Somerford (sometimes noted mistakenly as T. G. Somerford) was their second architect. His 1912-1914 hall at 134-141 King's Road, Chelsea, London is now a Grade II listed building.[1] Somerford's hall at 411-417 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London is also still there, but the frontage has been sub-divided into a number of smaller shop units, and the upper storeys are used as a hotel.[4]
Locations (July 1958)
[edit]London
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- Acton: 27 King Street
- Battersea: 66 Battersea Rise (illustrated)
- Chelsea: 131 King's Road (illustrated)
- Clapham: 47 Clapham High Street (illustrated)
- Croydon: 16 Katherine Street
- Ealing: 34/42 Bond Street
- Fulham: 90 High St
- Hammersmith: 150 King Street
- Highbury: 12 Highbury Corner
- Hounslow: 1 High Street
- Ilford: 257 High Road
- Kingston: 17/19 Fife Road
- Lavender Hill: 638/640 Wandsworth Road
- Lewisham: 237 High Street
- Morden: 36 Aberconway Road
- Putney: 118 High Street
- Richmond: 6 Red Lion Street
- Streatham: 42 Streatham High Road
- Tooting Bec: 2a Lynwood Road
- Twickenham: 1 Richmond Road
- Victoria: 104/112 Buckingham Palace Road
- Walthamstow: Hoe Street, E17 (also known as the Queen's)
- Wimbledon: 111 The Broadway
- Wood Green: 1/3 High Road
Sussex
[edit]- Worthing: 12 Bath Place
Greater Manchester
[edit]Manchester
[edit]- Cheetham Hill: Cheetham Hill Road
- Chorlton: Manchester Road
- Gorton: Hyde Road
- Harpurhey: Rochdale Road
- Moss Side: Moss Lane East
- Rusholme: Wilmslow Road
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Temperance Billiard Halls". victorianweb.org. The Victorian Web. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Former Temperance Billiard Hall, 90 and 90A, Fulham High Street (1391840)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ a b "The Sedge Lynn". jdwetherspoon.co.uk. J D Wetherspoon. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ "The old Temperance Billiard Hall on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton". brixtonbuzz.com. Brixton Buzz. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2014.