Temperance Hall
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Temperance Halls in South Africa
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]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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