THIS is a quite uniquely named street, there only being two other places having such a name – an entertainment park in Nottinghamshire and a hotel in the Lake District. In Malton it is without doubt the ‘main street’ with a great variety of businesses as well as a high traffic density. On one side were once four butchers – Bower’s, Co-op, Inman’s and Brighty’s – as well as Dent’s fishmonger.
The Primitive Methodist chapel (Image: Malton and Norton Heritage Centre) There were three public houses (now all closed) as well as Malton’s principal Co-operative store. It was also once home to the town’s post office, Woolworth’s and a lemonade factory. One building that is certainly missed by older residents is the Primitive Methodist Chapel, which opened in 1867 and was said to have had seating capacity between five and six hundred.
It was closed in the 1950s and had been used as a music venue in its later days. A Mr Sturdy lived at the chapel’s site before 1867 which was originally a field with three cruck cottages, one of these having been subsequently dismantled and rebuilt at Hutton-le-Hole’s Ryedale Folk Museum. A photo of a religious gathering held outside the chapel shows there to be a small domed building in the background.
A religious the Primitive Methodist chapel (Image: Malton and Norton Heritage Centre) This has always provoked curiosity and is shown as a small circle inside the blue area of the map. Nothing remains of it now. And not far away.
