Norman Evans was a British

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

, best known for the dozen and a half

temperance movement The temperance movement is a social movement promoting Temperance (virtue), temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and ...

billiard hall A billiard hall, also known as a pool hall, snooker hall, pool room or pool parlour, is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards. Such establishments commonly serve alcohol and often ha ...

s he designed for the Temperance Billiard Hall Co. Ltd. Several of these former halls designed by Evans are now

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buildings, such as the 1910

Temperance Billiard Hall, Fulham The Temperance Billiard Hall, now a pub called The Temperance, is a listed building, Grade II listed building at 90 Fulham High Street, Fulham, London. It was built in 1910, and the architect was Norman Evans (architect), Norman Evans. It was ...

, London, now somewhat ironically a pub called ''The Temperance''. The Temperance Billiard Hall built in

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, Manchester in 1907, also

, is now a

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pub called the Sedge Lynn. His assistant, Thomas Somerford, later designed billiard halls for Temperance Billiard Halls in his own right, as well as cinemas and other buildings.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Norman 20th-century English architects Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Architects from Lancashire