The brothers were committed Christians and strictly teetotal, refusing to supply their products to companies such as breweries, whom they did not approve of.
It was sent by Agnes 'Aggie' Weston - superintendent of the Royal Naval Temperance Society hence it being teetotal.
Teetotal Wesleyan chapel, built around 1845, was later a New Connexion chapel and then converted to a Wesleyan School, it has now been converted to a house.
At the end of his life, 'Young Tom' recalled piping sessions at the 'Willow Tree' in Newsham, with his father Tom, grandfather Henry Clough, and Richard Mowat all playing - Henry's and Richard Mowat's playing would get more furious and inaccurate as the evening progressed; Tom was teetotal.