Temperance Billiard Hall Co. Ltd. was a company founded in 1906 in

Pendleton, Lancashire Pendleton is a small village and civil parish in Ribble Valley, within the county of Lancashire, England. It is close to the towns of Whalley and Clitheroe. The parish lies on the north west side of Pendle Hill below the Nick o' Pendle. The vi ...

, as part of the wider

temperance movement The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and its leaders emph ...

, which built

billiard hall A billiard, pool or snooker hall (or parlour, room or club; sometimes compounded as poolhall, poolroom, etc.) is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards. Such establishments commonly serv ...

s in the north of England and London. Several of the former halls are now Grade II listed buildings, such as the 1910

Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham The Temperance Billiard Hall, now a pub called The Temperance, is a Grade II listed building at 90 Fulham High Street, Fulham, London. It was built in 1910, and the architect was Norman Evans. It was built for a company called Temperance Bi ...

, London, now somewhat ironically a pub called The Temperance. The Temperance Billiard Hall built in

Chorlton-cum-Hardy Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a suburban area of Manchester, England, southwest of the city centre. Chorlton ward had a population of 14,138 at the 2011 census, and Chorlton Park 15,147. By the 9th century, there was an Anglo-Saxon settlement her ...

, Manchester, in 1907, also Grade II listed, is now a

J D Wetherspoon J D Wetherspoon plc (branded variously as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and colloquially known as Spoons) is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company was founded in 1979 by Tim Martin and is based in Watford. It o ...

pub called the Sedge Lynn. Their first in-house architect was

Norman Evans Norman Evans (11 June 1901 – 25 November 1962) was an English stage and radio comedian, best remembered for his sketches and programmes entitled "Over the Garden Wall". Biography He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and started his working li ...

, who designed a dozen and a half halls from 1906 to 1911, including both of the halls mentioned above. Thomas Retford Somerford (sometimes noted mistakenly as T. G. Somerford) was their second architect. His 1912-1914 hall at 134-141

King's Road King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both ...

, Chelsea, London is now a Grade II listed building. 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.

Locations (July 1958)

London

Former Temperance Billiard Hall in Battersea Rise - geograph

*Acton: 27 King Street *Battersea: 66 Battersea Rise (''illustrated'') Temperance Billiard Hall, Chelsea 01

*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 47 Clapham High Street - geograph

*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

*Worthing: 12 Bath Place

Greater Manchester

* Eccles: Liverpool Road *

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: Union Street *

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...

: Nelson Street *

Urmston Urmston is a town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 41,825 at the 2011 Census. Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, it is southwest of Manchester city centre. The southern boundary is the ...

: Station Road

Manchester

* Cheetham Hill: Cheetham Hill Road *

Chorlton Chorlton may refer to: Places * Chorlton, Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England *Chorlton, Cheshire West and Chester, in Cheshire, England *Chorlton-cum-Hardy, in Manchester, England **Chorlton (ward), an electoral ward of Manchester, England **Chorl ...

: Manchester Road *

Gorton Gorton is an area of Manchester in North West England, southeast of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 36,055. Neighbouring areas include Levenshulme and Openshaw. A major landmark is Gorton Monastery, a 19th-century Hig ...

: Hyde Road *

Harpurhey Harpurhey ( ) is an inner-city suburb of Manchester in North West England, three miles north east of the city centre. Historically in Lancashire, the population at the 2011 census was 17,652. Areas of Harpurhey include Kingsbridge Estate, Bar ...

: Rochdale Road *

Moss Side Moss Side is an inner-city area of Manchester, England, south of the city centre, It had a population of 20,745 at the 2021 census. Moss Side is bounded by Hulme to the north, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Rusholme and Fallowfield to the east, W ...

: Moss Lane East *

Rusholme Rusholme () is an area of Manchester, England, two miles south of the city centre. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 13,643. Rusholme is bounded by Chorlton-on-Medlock to the north, Victoria Park and Longsight to the east, F ...

: Wilmslow Road

References

{{Reflist Temperance movement 1906 establishments in the United Kingdom Cue sports in the United Kingdom