Independent Order of Rechabites Banner, 1922

Kilsyth had a strong temperance movement, which successfully voted the town 'dry' in 1922, an act that lasted until 1967. The Rechabites were a temperance order, so-called after a Biblical people who were forbidden by tribal custom from drinking wine.

Museum reference:
CUKDM-1986-1
Date:
1922
Associated with:
1922 · Circa 1922. Banner proclaims Kilsyth as Scotland's first dry town.

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