The building in the background has a sign that reads Market Cafe Temperance Hotel which I believe was on Dovecot Street, Stockton.
Photograph an details courtesy of Keith Doolan.
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The building in the background has a sign that reads Market Cafe Temperance Hotel which I believe was on Dovecot Street, Stockton.
Photograph an details courtesy of Keith Doolan.
I wonder if this building was also known as the “Coffee Palace” which issued the Tenperance tokens as discussed elsewhere on Picture Stockton, go to https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/stockton-coffee-palace-tokens/
Yes, the ‘Temperance Hotel’ WAS in Dovecot Street. If you look at the coloured postcard above it can (if you look closely) clearly seen next to ‘Cowley’ the watchmaker. The ‘C’ of Cowley can clearly be seen on the query photo. I remember my late mother mentioning that her dad (my grandfather) joined a ‘Temperance’ choir. I think perhaps it may have been an early form of Alcoholics Anonymous, as she remembered him as a heavy drinker and it helped to steer him away from it, having a hobby of singing, not just wasting his Friday wages in the pub on the way home from work.
Looks too wide for Dovcot Street
No, it was on the High Street, hence the cobbles.
While the subject of this post’s photo was on Dovecot St. (next door to the Lit & Phil), there were other temperance establishments on the High Street, as seen here: https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2002/01/22/stockton-high-street-c1920s/ (This one later became The Waverley Hotel/Cafe/Dining Rooms, McDonald’s and now a solicitor’s office.)