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Cape of Good Hope – HDR

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Cape of Good Hope, South Africa near Cape Town. HDR composite from multiple exposures.

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Prince & Hope

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Alongside the plaque for Louis Le Prince is another which, given the often seedy direction which the cinema he pioneered has taken, represents a nice irony. In the same building, in 1847, campaigners against the demon drink met to form the Band of Hope movement.

The Band of Hope started when a 72 year old Irish Presbyterian was invited to Leeds to speak at some children’s meetings. Ann Jane Carlile was convinced that children suffered because of the ready availability of ‘strong drink’. Ann met a young Baptist minister called Jabez Tunnicliffe, who had been shaken to the core by an experience with a dying alcoholic. Just before he died, the man had grabbed Tunnicliffe and made him promise to warn children about the dangers of drink. Jabez was one of 22 children of a Wolverhampton shoemaker and had gained a reputation for high principles and matching oratory since coming to Leeds in 1842.

Ann and Jabez discovered their common interest and decided to start a regular children’s meeting. One suggestion is that Ann is supposed to have said “What a happy band these children make, they are the hope for the future.” Another is that at that inaugural meeting, Jabez moved his Quaker friends by telling them how addiction to drink had killed a once-respectable and pious young family man. Jabez waved a sheet carrying the words of a popular melody: "Come all ye children, sing a song … the Band of Hope shall be our name, the Temperance star our guide".

Fifty years later, the Band of Hope numbered over 3 million children and adults. Queen Victoria was its Jubilee patron and it was part of the fabric of Victorian society and the Church

The nearby Leeds Bridge House was built as a Temperance Hotel around 1875 by John James Cousins, a Leeds banker. It closed as a hotel in 1900 when it was taken over by Tunstall & Co (Manufacturing Chemists or Roofing Felt Manufacturers ?). It later had a number of uses until it was scheduled for demolition in 1960. It was reprieved and made into offices in 1981. Its triangular shape reflects the restricted space available on the site.

Sources:

Band of Hope on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_UK

Band of Hope in the book "Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia", J. S. Blocker, D. M. Fahey & I. R. Tyrrell, Editors. 2003. Publisher: ABC-CLIO
books.google.co.uk/books?id=BuzNzm-x0l8C&pg=PA86&…

Hope UK
www.hopeuk.org/pages/hopeuk.php?page=history&style=ab…

A Band of Hope emblem on a building in Manchester.
www.flickr.com/photos/7511731@N06/2263979871/

Film of a Band of Hope demonstration in Brighton in 1913.
www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/se/films/se10hope.html

A Band of Hope Certificate of Merit.
www.flickr.com/photos/75166820@N00/101262323/

The Band of Hope drinking Fountain in Peel Park, Bradford.
www.flickr.com/photos/atoach/2301895629/

Views of Leeds Bridge House from Leodis.
www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002610_58…
www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2003108_47…

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