{"id":1249,"date":"2016-09-25T19:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=1249"},"modified":"2018-08-06T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T11:12:39","slug":"the-brotherhood-hall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-place\/buildings-of-launceston\/the-brotherhood-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brotherhood Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE LAUNCESTON BOYS TEMPERANCE INSTITUTE, Wooda Road:
\nThe foundation stones of the new institute were laid by Mr R Kelly, CC, of Kelly, and Canon Moore, on Thursday, 7th February, 1889.
\nThe committee had purchased several old houses and sheds in Wooda Road which, together with the new buildings,\u00a0 brought a total cost of about \u00a31,100. One of the houses remains standing and inhabited, and the rent will gradually help to wipe off the floating debt which will spread over a series of years and be assisted by several annual subscriptions promised. The work of erection was commenced sometime since by the contractor, Mr Broad, and the walls are already a considerable height from the foundations.
\nThe institute was\u00a0 built on a capital central site in Wooda Road, purchased at a cost of \u00a3800. The building has a southern frontage towards the road of 30 feet 6 ins, from which it is entered, and a depth of about 96 feet.
\nThe ground floor comprises: entrance hall, senior members\u2019 room, library, lavatories, care-keeper\u2019s apartments, noisy games room, workshops, and gymnasium court, with easy access from the lane on the western side. From the entrance hall a large staircase will lead to a hall to seat 150 persons, with two exits, and a refreshment room, also a large reading room and class room.
\nThe front is built of local cut stone of various colours, with granite quoins, Bath stone widows, and Polyphant columns which are of a very imposing appearance. The building was designed by Messrs Wise & Wise, architects, Launceston, under whose supervision the work was carried out by Mr W Broad, contractor, of the same town, and was completed in the Julyof 1889.
\nThe stone laying ceremony commenced at 4 pm, the first stone being laid by Canon Moore. Mr J Treleaven<\/a> then presented Mr Kelly with a trowel in the name of the committee and members of the brigade and asked him to lay the second stone.<\/p>\n

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C & D Post, October, 19, 1889:
\nThe Launceston Boys Temperance Institute was opened on Thursday, 17th October, 1889, in Wooda Road. Mr Pethick was requested to formerly open the building and was presented with a key by the Vicar (Rev. J B Sidgwick<\/em>), President of the Institution. The foundation stones were laid in February last, by Canon Moore and Mr Kelly, of Kelly.<\/p>\n

Launceston Working Lads Temperance Institute, Wooda Road, 1889, faced with Bath stone, \u00a31,300. With Library, committee and reading rooms, senior members room, large hall seating 250, gym, etc.<\/p>\n

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. THE LAUNCESTON BOYS TEMPERANCE INSTITUTE, Wooda Road: The foundation stones of the new institute were laid by Mr R Kelly, CC, of Kelly, and Canon Moore, on Thursday, 7th February, 1889. The committee had purchased several old houses and sheds in Wooda Road which, together with the new buildings,\u00a0 brought a total cost of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1196,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249\/revisions\/1253"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}