Norman Evans (architect) explained

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]

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.

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.[2]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Temperance Billiard Halls. victorianweb.org. The Victorian Web. 10 February 2014.
  2. Web site: The Sedge Lynn. jdwetherspoon.co.uk. J D Wetherspoon. 10 February 2014.