"The Toll, Bonnybridge"
Maker
1. Unknown
2. Bonnybridge Photographic Society
Production date
Circa 1900
Description
The toll-keeper's cottage - view of a single-storey cottage with slate roof. One end has a shop window advertising Mitchell's Gold Medal Prize Crop Cigarettes. Beyond it is a single storey hall. Children are standing in the street. Temperance Hall in background
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Object detail
The hall is the Temperance Hall, opened in 1882 by the Star O' Bonnyvale Lodge of the Independent (International?) Order of Good Templars. Consumption of alcohol was ruining many lives and the Temperance Movement aimed to educate people about its dangers.
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