The Temperance Billiard Hall, now a pub called The Temperance, is a Grade II listed building at 90

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, Fulham, London. It was built in 1910, and the architect was

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. It was built for a company called Temperance Billiard Halls Ltd, who built a number of such halls in London and the north of England. The

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urged the reduced or prohibited use of alcoholic beverages. It was previously part of the chain ''O'Neill's'', and before that was part of the Firkin Brewery chain and known as the ''Pharaoh and Firkin''.

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Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Grade II listed commercial buildings Commercial buildings completed in 1910 Pubs in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Fulham {{pub-stub