Hi Colin, I don't know if you had any replies to your question on the Temperance movement but there were many different temperance movements in Sunderland in the nineteenth century. These included the British Women's Temperance Association, the Sons of Temperance, the Band of Hope, the Temperance Society, the Church of England Temperance Society and the North of England Temperance Society. Sunderland Band of Hope was formed in 1881, and on 28th July 1894 thousands of children from the 33 Band of Hope branches marched from Holmeside via Stockton Road to lee's Field at Ryhope. By 1897 the Band of Hope had a nation-wide membership of 3,200,000 children. Thomas William Backhouse (1842-1920), who bequeathed Ashbourne House and gardens (Backhouse Park) to the town, was one of the influential leaders of the Temperance movement. Regards Stan Mapstone