Coffee Tavern / Coffee house (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 07:12 (5830 days ago) @ Celia61

I suspect Coffee Tavern is more or less equal to Coffee house.

In Victorian England, 1880s, the temperance movement tried to revive the coffee house scene in an attempt to divert the working man from the perils of drink. Modeled on the mahogany-trimmed taverns promoted by the beer industry, 'Coffee taverns,' one pamphlet stated, 'must show there are beverages as comforting as beer, that there are beverages to be bought as cheap as beer.'

Some societies, including at least two formed by miners at large pits,
met at chapels, and several, notably the East Dean Economic Benefit
Society formed at the Baptist chapel in 1854 by Timothy Mountjoy,
promoted temperance. (fn. 91) In 1877 the opening of a temperance
hotel and hall in the town was disturbed by the playing of a band employed
by a local publican. (fn. 92) The town had several coffee houses in the late 1880s. (fn. 93)
referring to Cinderford

From: 'Forest of Dean: Social life', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred,
St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 381-389.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23270 Date accessed: 19 February 2009.

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