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The Usher Hall, opened in 1914, is, like the University's McEwan Hall, an Edinburgh building that owes its existence to a brewer's or distiller's benefaction. Ironically, it was not equipped with a refreshments bar, believed to be a result of Andrew Usher's strongly held temperance views. It has hosted many great conductors, orchestras and concert performers over the years; and has also witnessed memorable events, such as the recruitment rally that induced several Heart of Midlothian F.C. players to enlist in the Great War and a British Union of Fascists rally at which Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts caused a street riot by ejecting hecklers.