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White Ribbon, Volume 2, Issue 20, 1 February 1897, Page 5

A Teetotal Village. Some interesting facts have been published respecting the teetotal colliery village of Roe Green in Lancashire. Twenty-five years ago the houses belonged almost exclusively to the Bridgewater trustees, who employ most of the men. To-day, out of 140 houses, 81 are inhabited by their owners. The Rechabite tent has a membership of 270, the Band of Hope 286. There is a co-operative store, the property of the village, yielding a profit of 3s in the £. The chapel and Sunday-school have been built by the workmen themselves at a cost of £2,700, and while, in the United Kingdom as a whole, one in four persons over 60 years of age receives parish pay at least for a part of the year, in Roe Green there is not a single one over this age receivin' pauper relief.