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A History of the County of Stafford
… Gospel Blue Ribbon Mission. In 1882 the Gospel Temperance Movement, also known as the Blue Ribbon Army, held … in West Bromwich. The mission was followed by organized temperance work, and meetings were held in a house in Pitt …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the efforts of the local branch of the Church of England Temperance Society. When the club's committee decided to … a total abstinence group split off and in 1878 opened a temperance coffee house in High Street, modelled on those …
A History of the County of Essex
… a mixed school with an attendance of 125, meeting in the Temperance hall, North Street. 140 It appears to have closed …
A History of the County of Essex
… (South) was won by Joseph Leicester, a trade unionist and temperance reformer. He was defeated in 1886 by a local …
A History of the County of Essex
… were repaired. Swanscombe Street church, meeting at the Temperance Hall, was formed about 1881 by James Brittain, … over by a group which since 1876 had been meeting in the Temperance Hall, Wouldham Street. 78 James Brittain was … by Thomas Crow (d. 1886), a retired Baptist minister and temperance reformer who lived at Rokeby House. 144 A group of …
A History of the County of Essex
… before the First World War, was the promotion of temperance, thrift, or mutual aid among a population living … such habits. Before the First World War there were some 75 temperance societies and 100 friendly societies in the borough. 118 The temperance societies, with their emphasis on total …
Old and New London
… lectures, and quiet reading being carried on upstairs. A temperance association was now formed by some of the members, … formed by paying a penny a week, the use of a room for the temperance meetings being accorded free of expense. A barrow …