Author: J.B. HEGGIE
Title: Social Party of the Friends and Acquaintances of J.B. Heggie, to be held in his Temperance Coffee House, Cathcart Street, on the Evening of Wednesday 14th. June 1854. Tea on the table at 8 o'clock precisely. Admit a Lady and a Gentleman.
Description: Glasgow, 1854. Ticket, 75 x 115 mm. The Glasgow temperance movement was a powerful force in the city during the nineteenth much of the twentieth century and coffee houses gave an alternative to pubs which allowed social intercourse and an opportunity for meetings and establishing friendships. Polls which enabled areas to remain dry according the the Temperance (Scotland) Act, only ceased in 1976> several areas chose to become 'dry' in the 1920s.

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