Temperance Hall

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The Temperance Movements in South Africa led to the building or fitting up of a large number of venues devoted to issues of temperance, abstinence, emancipation, and so on. These were on occasion also used for performances, often related to their concerns.

Among them were:

The Temperance Hall, Long Street, Cape Town

The Temperance Hall, King William's Town

1886 A meeting was held there by the Phoenix Society on Thursday, .

Mrs Parry's Temperance Rooms, Simonstown

Used by the Independent Order of Good Templars as a meeting place.


Sources

Saul Solomon and Co, 1886. The General Directory and Guide Book to the Cape of Good Hope and Its Dependencies - as well as The Free State, Transvaal and Natal[1]