Norman Evans (architect)

Norman Evans was a British architect, best known for the dozen and a half temperance movement billiard halls he designed for the Temperance Billiard Hall Co Ltd.[1]

The Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham
The Temperance Billiard Hall, Chorlton-cum-Hardy

The Temperance Billiard Hall Co Ltd was a Pendleton, Lancashire company that as part of the wider temperance movement built billiard halls in the north of England and London.

Several of these former halls designed by Evans are now Grade II listed buildings, such as the 1910 Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham, London, now somewhat ironically a pub called The Temperance.[2]

The Temperance Billiard Hall built in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester in 1907, also Grade II listed, is now a J D Wetherspoon pub called the Sedge Lynn.[3]

His assistant, Thomas Somerford, later designed billiard halls for Temperance Billiard Halls in his own right, as well as cinemas and other buildings.

References
  1. "Temperance Billiard Halls". victorianweb.org. The Victorian Web. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  2. Historic England. "Former Temperance Billiard Hall, 90 and 90A, Fulham High Street (1391840)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  3. "The Sedge Lynn". jdwetherspoon.co.uk. J D Wetherspoon. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
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