Description: 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, usually ornately designed, hotels and coffee and tea houses sprung up in towns and cities all over the country. ( see NCCC001649 for a picture of the Hucknall Womens Total Abstinence Committee - who looked severe enough to make anyone abstain from drinking alchohol forever!)