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Jan 2021: The "Alcatraz": An Alcohol-Free Pub in Aylesbury


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For Dry January, we talk all things Tee-Total, Temperate and Alcohol-Free.  Lisa Edwards and Katherine Gwyn reflect on what the archive can tell us about our changing relationship with drink, starting with this photo of a very unusual pub.  

We cover Temperance Hotels, the Hartwell House Temperance Festivals, and Buckinghamshire's own alcohol-free hero: Stephen Shirley, who was closely connected to the Band of Hope movement.  

Different Temperance Organisations and Activities that feature in our archive collections:

Order of the Sons of Temperance, High Wycombe Division
North Temperance Hotel, Wendover
Church of England Temperance Society, Upper Winchendon Branch
Peace, Temperance and Bond of Universal Brotherhood Festivals at Hartwell
Temperance Hotel, Winslow
Royal Temperance Hotel, Westminster
Nontox Temperance Ale Manufacturing Company, Aylesbury
Temperance Hotel, Great Western Street, Aylesbury
National British Women's Total Abstinence Union, Princes Risborough
Aylesbury, Wycombe, and Castlethorpe Methodist Circuits
Chesham Temperance Hotel
Chenies Parish
Wendover Congregational Band of Hope
Wolverton Wesleyan Methodist Band of Hope
Castlethorpe Methodist Band of Hope
High Wycombe Congregational Band of Hope
Great Marlow Excelsior Band of Hope
Newport Pagnell Band of Hope

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