Beccles Temperance Hotel
last updated Feb 8th, 2020.
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Beccles Temperance Hotel
52.45796,1.56498
Closed: between 1920 and 1970
6 Station Rd
grid reference TM 422 904 (approximate location)
This seems to have stood adjacent to the baptist church - possibly connected?
My memory tells me that the hanging sign seen here [in postcard dated 12.30pm, July 22, 1911], lingered on the building all the way throughout the era when Gale's Garage had a car showroom adjacent [to the site]. I think they used the old hotel as the office to the garage. I am not at all sure when Gales finally sold out their business, but would guess in the late 1980s. The railings we see here, were [probably] removed for war weapons manufacturing purposes in the first world war.from David Wallace
Gallery
Old Tap 0.08 mile
King's Head Hotel 0.08 mile
Swan House 0.11 mile
Bear & Bells 0.14 mile
Oakfired at Royal Oak 0.22 mile
Ingate 0.46 mileHistorical interest
A new lodge in connection with the I.O.G.T. (International Organisation of Good Templars), is instituted at a meeting at Smith’s Temperance Hotel, the lodge to be called the “Twentieth Century” Lodge.the Almanack, October 1st 1902
WOMENS’ UNIONIST ASSOCIATION for Beccles & District to be formed. Meeting at Gale’s Temperance Hotel.East Suffolk Gazette, February 7th 1911
CAXTON PRESS: Entertainment to upwards of 100 girls employed at Caxton Press at Gales Temperance Hotel.East Suffolk Gazette, August 20th 1912
CLOWES’ Entertainment of apprentices & lads. About 100 at Gale’s Temperance Hotel.East Suffolk Gazette, August 27th 1912
Landlords
1900: Frederick William Smith (Commercial temperance hotel & dining rooms)
1901: Fredk W Smith ((Temperance Hotel Proprietor, Head/Married/39y/born Fincham, Norfolk))
1912: Wallace Gale
1916: Wallace Gale
1922: Wallace Gale
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
