Themes Gallery: Leisure

The pub was a centre of entertainment and a popular meeting place. Fearing that people drank too much, Temperance Societies were formed to persuade working men and women to give up drinking.

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Roll over this photo to switch between Tiverton Ales sign and a temperance certificate from 1875 when William Frank Hobbs joined the Temperance Society and declared that he would never drink alcohol.