Temperance Billiard Halls
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The Temperance Billiard Hall Co Ltd was a Pendleton, Lancashire company founded in 1906, that as part of the wider temperance movement 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)
London
Acton: 27 King Street
Battersea: 66 Battersea Rise
Chelsea: 131 King's Road
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
Lavender Hill: 638/640 Wandsworth Road
Lewisham: 237 High Street
Moreden: 36 Aberconway Road
Kingston: 17/19 Fife 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
Wimbledon: 111 The Broadway
Wood Green: 1/3 High Road
Sussex
Worthing: 12 Bath Place
Manchester
Cheetham Hill: Cheetham Hill Road
Chorlton: Manchester Road
Eccles: Liverpool Road
Moss Side: Moss Lane East
Oldham: Union Street
Rochdale: Nelson Street
Rusholme: Wilmslow Road
References
- 1 2 3 "Temperance Billiard Halls". victorianweb.org. The Victorian Web. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- 1 2 Historic England. "Former Temperance Billiard Hall, 90 and 90A, Fulham High Street (1391840)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- 1 2 "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. Retrieved 10 February 2014.