[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

In Accrington there was also a Rechabites grioup. They met in an upstairs room some where top of Infant St/Abbey St I think. They too were a temperance/total abstinence movement. Their name comes from a Biblical paragraph linking them to not drinking wine.

I think there was some of them Band of Hoper's in a building on Nuttall St, I remember my dad telling me him and his mates wedged the doors, and then pour a concoction of vinegar & dolly blue thro the letter box, they were hanging out of the upstairs windows shouting for help.

Retlaw.