Description: A rather stiff and dour group photograph of some of the temperance hotel staff (compare this picture to the one showing cheerful bar staff in NTGM005530 and its easy to see why the Temperance movement gradually declined in popularity!). The Temperance movement was popular in the Victorian period and early 20th century promoting the ideals of a non-alcoholic life through social events, and by providing alternative places to stay or drink beverages. Many hotels and coffee and tea houses sprung up in towns and cities. There was another hotel like the one seen here on Shakespeare Street and Lester's Temperance Hotel on Hounds Gate. A Temperance Movement Hall was designed by the renowned Nottingham Architect Watson Fothergill but never built. Watson Fothergill also built a Coffee Tavern for the Temperance Movement in Hucknall (1884).