Temperance Billiard Halls

The Temperance Billiard Hall Co Ltd was a Pendleton, Lancashire company founded in 1906, that as part of the wider temperance movement built billiard halls 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, London, now somewhat ironically a pub called The Temperance.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Acton: 27 King Street

Battersea: 66 Battersea Rise

Chelsea: 131 King's Road

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

Lavender Hill: 638/640 Wandsworth Road

Lewisham: 237 High Street

Moreden: 36 Aberconway Road

Kingston: 17/19 Fife 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

Wimbledon: 111 The Broadway

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