Temperance Billiard Halls

The Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham
The former Temperance Billiard Hall, Chorlton-cum-Hardy

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)

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London

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The former Temperance Billiard Hall in Battersea Rise
  • Acton: 27 King Street
  • Battersea: 66 Battersea Rise (illustrated)
The Temperance Billiard Hall, Chelsea
  • 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 (formerly a temperance billiard hall)
  • 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

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  • Worthing: 12 Bath Place

Greater Manchester

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Manchester

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Temperance Billiard Halls". victorianweb.org. The Victorian Web. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b Historic England. "Former Temperance Billiard Hall, 90 and 90A, Fulham High Street (1391840)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b "The Sedge Lynn". jdwetherspoon.co.uk. J D Wetherspoon. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  4. ^ "The old Temperance Billiard Hall on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton". brixtonbuzz.com. Brixton Buzz. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2014.