This is how I remember the old Temperance Billiard Hall which opened in 1907 and was part of an influential movement.*
The hall was one of a number opened across Greater Manchester, which pretty much conformed to a uniform design.
Most have gone, with a few being adapted to industrial or retail use.
Ours survived, continuing to offer up billiards and at some point, morphed in to the Chorlton Snooker Club.
I can’t be exactly sure when the picture was taken but it will be in the mid to late 1990s, by which time the exterior had been much mucked about, and part of the hall was rented out to a taxi firm.
All very different from the beginning of the 20th century when the power of the movement was such that plans for the rebuilding of two Chorlton pubs.
The Bowling Green after initial objections went a head in 1908, but The Royal Oak had to wait till the 1930s.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Chorlton Snooker Club, circa 1990s, courtesy of Steve, and the Temperance Billiard Hall, Chorlton, November 1958, A.H. Downes, m18044, Courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
*"Away, away with rum by gum," signing the pledge to forgo the demon drink
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| 1990s |
Most have gone, with a few being adapted to industrial or retail use.
Ours survived, continuing to offer up billiards and at some point, morphed in to the Chorlton Snooker Club.
I can’t be exactly sure when the picture was taken but it will be in the mid to late 1990s, by which time the exterior had been much mucked about, and part of the hall was rented out to a taxi firm.
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| 1958 |
The Bowling Green after initial objections went a head in 1908, but The Royal Oak had to wait till the 1930s.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Chorlton Snooker Club, circa 1990s, courtesy of Steve, and the Temperance Billiard Hall, Chorlton, November 1958, A.H. Downes, m18044, Courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
*"Away, away with rum by gum," signing the pledge to forgo the demon drink
https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Temperance
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