Norman Evans (architect)
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Norman Evans was a British architect, best known for the dozen and a half temperance movement billiard halls he designed for the Temperance Billiard Hall Co. Ltd.[1]
Several of these former halls designed by Evans are now Grade II listed buildings, such as the 1910 Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham, London, now somewhat ironically a pub called The Temperance.[2]
The Temperance Billiard Hall built in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester in 1907, also Grade II listed, is now a J D Wetherspoon pub called the Sedge Lynn.[3]
His assistant, Thomas Somerford, later designed billiard halls for Temperance Billiard Halls in his own right, as well as cinemas and other buildings.
References[edit]
- ^ "Temperance Billiard Halls". victorianweb.org. The Victorian Web. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ Historic England. "Former Temperance Billiard Hall, 90 and 90A, Fulham High Street (1391840)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ "The Sedge Lynn". jdwetherspoon.co.uk. J D Wetherspoon. Retrieved 10 February 2014.