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Band of Hope

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Band of Hope
n
a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847


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In the early days they rented the land from a Mrs Croft who gave them a headache from time to time - like when she demanded that the Band of Hope had freedom to use the land one day every year.
The traditional Buckley Jubilee celebration was born out of the Band of Hope Movement in the 1850s.
A mark of this was that in 1907 for the Temperance Society's Whit Tuesday procession they were able to produce 9,000 Band of Hope supporters, society members from 52 branches and seven brass bands, a procession that was probably still leaving St George's Square while the vanguard was entering Greenhead Park for the jamboree.
 
 
 
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