Now many and varied are the things I collect.
And a long time ago, I put aside cigarette cards, old Eagle comics and period picture postcards for the really big things.
The things you would class as street furniture, ranging from coal hole covers, to roadside gas lamps and ghost signs.
Even larger are temperance snooker halls of which there are still a fair few in Greater Manchester.
As far as I am aware most are no longer used for their original purpose, but long ago were converted into workshops, restaurants and in the case of the one in Chorlton transformed into a Weatherspoons.
They were built by The Temperance Billiard Hall Co Ltd which had been founded in 1906 and was based at 3 Ford Lane in Pendleton.
In 1911 the temperance empire, included sites on Moss Lane East, Stockport Road, Rochdale Road, Ashton Old Road, Bury New Road, Broad Street, Eccles New Road, Liverpool Road, Station Road, Altrincham, Cross Street Sale, Manchester Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Wilmlsow Road, Rusholme, Hyde Road in Gorton, Stretford Road, Old Trafford and Cheetham Hill Road.
And into the collectors box today goes this one collected by Alan Jennings.
It is on Bolton Street in Bury, and as yet I am not sure if it was built by The Temperance Billiard Hall Company, but it looks like the others.
So thank you to Alan.
Location; Bolton
Picture; former Temperance snooker hall, Bolton Street in Bury, 2020, from the collection of Alan Jennings
*Temperance, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Temperance
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Snooker Halls, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search?q=snooker+halls
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