At their peak, nearly a third of England's temperance halls aimed at curbing the scourge of alcohol once stood in London - a statistic that says as much about Victorian drinking habits in the capital as it does about the scale of the movement that rose up to challenge them. And many of the survivors are "hidden in plain sight" with new names and functions.
Not one mob but two awaits him as his casket rolls out of the factory gates. On one side are evangelistic followers of the Temperance movement, whose objections to the Guinness family don't really need to be explained. On the other hand, there's the Fenians, the unruliest of the factions pushing for Irish independence from Great Britain. Sure, Benjamin Guinness might have made great beer, but he was also a unionist and a Protestant.