Hi Megan
Have not been able to get back to you, because my wife has just come out of hospital.
I certainly know All Saints because my twelve month at Leek Road was staying at the vicarage, no 540 adjoining the church hall.
Am I right in assuming that you still live at Leek Road, as you are researching
house and not family history.If you do not want to give the exact address, could you say whether it is before or after the church hall when travelling from joiner's square and is it on the same side?
I doubt if the alcohol 'ban' would have been from All Saints but may well have been from the Methodists who were strong in the area.
All Saints did have a mission church of St Luke's in the area before the present
Church was built as also did the Methodists or maybe the owner of the land was a strict Methodist.
One of the links below shows the area in 1890 and clearly the Austin street area of Leek Road was inhabited up to near the Church... most of the houses after the church (Stuart Rd area)are a later build.
All Saints was a 'High Church' (nearer to Roman Catholic in its beliefs and even in the early seventies there was a lot of 'rivalry' between them and the
methodists (one reason why I moved on because I was 'speaking to the Methodists')..unbelievable.
Many of the people in that area at the turn of the century were from outside the area drawn by the coal mining and potteries.
Here are a few more interesting links besides the excellent one from yonderpeasant!.....search on the page for Joiner;s Square
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53371http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53378http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Residents-taken-trip-time/article-2705777-detail/article.html(This last link discusses a talk about Joiner's Square' given only a few weeks ago and there is a book about it on sale at the Community Centre.
Bill
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53378http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Residents-taken-trip-time/article-2705777-detail/article.html