Catalogue description Records of Whitby Temperance Society

This collection comprises This collection comprises copy deed of trust c1843; two deeds of trust 1899; minutes of meetings of trustees 1891-1914; minutes of meetings of the Demonstration Committee and public and business meetings, 1898-1899 and 1908-1926 including list of members 1897-1899, list of affiliated societies, newspaper cuttings and flyers relating to the Society's activities; cash book 1915-1947; revenue accounts 1947-1975; details of investments and bank accounts 1929-1946; two registers of pledges some arranged alphabetically, giving name, age, address, occupation and date pledge taken 1885-1915; provisional valuation of the Whitby Temperance Hall, Whitby, made by the District Valuer under the provisions of the Finance Act 1910, 1914; correspondence between J T Sewell, Chairman of the Whitby Temperance Society and Woodwark and White, solicitors of Whitby, relating to the sale of the Whitby Temperance Hall, Victoria Place 1912-1914; correspondence between the J W Wilcock, Secretary of the Whitby Temperance Society and the Charity Commissioners relating to the establishment of a new scheme for the management of the Society 1914-1915.

Whitby Temperance Society

• Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire

This collection was deposited in October 1980 by H C Lowden, Treasurer of the Whitby Temperance Society.

The Whitby Temperance Society was established in 1837. It had a Temperance Hall and other premises on Baxtergate until the site was sold to the York and County Banking Company Ltd (since the site of the Whitby branch of the Midland Bank, later the HSBC Bank). In March 1886 land in Victoria Place was bought from North Eastern Railway Company and a new Temperance Hall was built there; this was sold by the Society in March 1914.

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