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Bob Dobson · 15-08-2008, 21:06

This was the name of a Working Men's Club which didn't serve ale. Started in the 1880s, it had a cup-winning football team made up of local lads. Can anyone come up with a photo please. The man behind the name was william Bell, a temperance speaker who toured the country(mostly the North) and who was the inspiration for a small group of Accy lads to form the club. There was about this time an Accrington Temperance Society.
I once won an essay competition that a visiting temperance speaker in the library (1954ish) organised. I didn't write on temperance though. Maybe I was the only entrant.

15-08-2008, 21:06	#1
Bob Dobson Senior Member+ Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Staining, Blackpool Posts: 3,096 Liked: 407 times Rep Power: 158676	Bell's Temperance This was the name of a Working Men's Club which didn't serve ale. Started in the 1880s, it had a cup-winning football team made up of local lads. Can anyone come up with a photo please. The man behind the name was william Bell, a temperance speaker who toured the country(mostly the North) and who was the inspiration for a small group of Accy lads to form the club. There was about this time an Accrington Temperance Society. I once won an essay competition that a visiting temperance speaker in the library (1954ish) organised. I didn't write on temperance though. Maybe I was the only entrant.