Catalogue description Records of The Western Alcohol and Drugs Education Service

WESTERN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE

- Minutes

- Conferences

- Log Books

- Financial Records

- Journals

- Printed Material

- Pictorial Records

- Photographic Records

THE BAND OF HOPE UNION

- Bristol

- Somerset

- Gloucestershire

- Frome

BRISTOL UNITED TEMPERANCE SOCIETY

- Minutes

- Certificates

BRISTOL TEMPERANCE FEDERATION

- Minutes

- Report Books

- Printed Material

BRISTOL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY AND GOSPEL TEMPERANCE UNION

- Minutes

OTHER ASSOCIATIONS

- Devon and Cornwall Temperance League

- Winchester United Temperance Council

- Bath Temperance Association

- Oxfordshire Societies

Western Temperance League

Band of Hope Union

In May 1836 the British and Foreign Temperance Society was founded in London. Before this, the Temperance cause had lacked any real national organization.

The majority of the records in this collection are from The Western Temperance League, founded as The Bristol Temperance Society in June 1836 by Cyrus Clark. His aim was to promote the disuse of all alcoholic drinks by every legitimate means; this included missionary work. The main organ of the League was The Bristol Temperance Herald whose name was changed to The Western Temperance Herald in 1859.

Other local temperance organizations were quickly established such as The Band of Hope who directed their message towards the training of the young and the West of England Temperance Association, who provided missionaries for the local area.

The area covered by the Western Temperance League included Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and parts of South Wales.

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