| Title | Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists |
| Date | c1892 |
| Location | Yeadon |
| Photo ID | B318 |
| Comment | See below… |
This photo was in a time capsule found in 1984 when the Church Institute was converted into apartments.
Situated on Chapel Lane, the building seen here was built in 1766, the first Wesleyan Chapel in Yeadon. In 1854 it was sold to W B Crompton Stansfield of Esholt who allowed it to be used as a Church of England Mission and schoolroom. When St. Andrew’s Church was built in 1891 this building became known as “Old St. Andrew’s”, it was demolished in 1894 and replaced by the Church Institute.
B319 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, c1892.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – c1892
This second photograph was in a time capsule found in 1984 when the Church Institute was converted into apartments.
This was the first Wesleyan Chapel in Yeadon built in 1766, later a Mission Room and schoolroom for the Church of England. It was demolished in 1894 and the Church Institute built on the site. When that building was converted into apartments in 1984 a time capsule was found which contained this photo.
Various pieces of furniture can be seen, there is also an organ on the right.
Scan5133 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, c1892.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – c1892
This was the first Wesleyan chapel in Yeadon, it was built in 1766 by Jeremiah Marshall of Parkgate, Guiseley.
The bell tower can be seen on the roof.
The Chapel was sold in 1854 to W.B. Crompton Stansfield of Esholt who gave permission for it to be used as a mission hall and school by the Church of England.
In 1984 the Institute was converted into apartments.
K813 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, c1894.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – c1894
This old Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was the first to be built in Yeadon in 1766, it was demolished in 1894 and the Church Institute built on the site. This is now apartments, the image was taken on a glass slide by Ernest E Slater.
B329 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, 1900.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – 1900
Caretakers House, Chapel Hill, Yeadon.
This was home to the caretaker of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Chapel Hill.
B333 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, 1900.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – 1900
A group of people who were members of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Chapel Hill. The location is unknown.
B331 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, 1909.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – 1909
Trustees of Wesleyan Chapel, Yeadon.
A large group of Trustees outside the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Chapel Hill. Many of them can also be seen in image B328 below.
B328 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, 1909.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – 1909
Wesleyan Methodist Tea, Yeadon.
Pictured outside the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Chapel Hill are members of the congregation posing prior to enjoying a tea.
Editor’s Note: The information accompanying images B331 and B328 on submission to the AHS suggest a gathering of trustees for a meeting and or afternoon tea on different dates. However, it is quite obvious that the photographs were taken on the same occasion and date with only a few persons changing their position. JB. 13 November 2023.
B326 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, c1910.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – c1910
This image has been originally indexed as “Two ladies at Chapel Hill Methodist Garden Party”, at the bottom it is marked “Frankland New Scarboro” On page 55 of Round and About Aireborough, Vol: IV, by Martin Rigg the same table appears with two men sitting at it and four ladies standing behind, two of which are the ladies seen here. Mr Rigg is also in doubt about the location Chapel Hill or New Scarboro?
Editor’s Note: As with the passage of time details not recorded at the time often cause this confusion at future dates, however, which ever the location they still remain members of the Wesleyan Methodists Chapel Hill and this is where I have placed them. JB. 13 November 2023.
B327 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, c1910.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – c1910
Members of Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Chapel Hill, at a garden party, as above.
M217A – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists,1925.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – 1925
The names of this group are noted but not in order, they were: Jessie Lucas, Ivy Stock, Elsie Fell, Edith Hudson, Edna Sample, Elsie Robinson, Nancy, Mary and Jim Brown, Edith, Elsie and Gladys Parker, Carrie Child, Annie Emmot, Margaret Jenkinson.
C117 – Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists, 1929.
Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodists – 1929
This group of boys has been named.
Back Row left to right: Ashley Waite (emigrated to Australia), Leslie Sessions, Dennis Waite, Archie Marshall (had a fish shop on Ivegate).
Middle Row, left to right: Albert Tate, Stanley Parker (emigrated to Australia), Eric Roo, Isaac Kitchen.
Front Row, left to right: Fred Hudson (played the Dame in Yeadon pantomimes), Herbert West (killed in action).
Frank Richardson (killed in action), Jack Brown.
C034 – Wesleyan Methodist Chapels, 1933.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapels – 1933
A circuit rally which took place in the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School on Chapel Hill. Seated in the front row are Reverend Dinsdale Young and Reverend Rider.
W272 – Wesleyan Methodist Chapels, 1936.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapels – 1936
A “field day” held by the Wesleyan Methodists who worshipped at the chapel on Chapel Hill.
K075 – Wesleyan Methodist Chapels, Undated.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapels – Undated
Situated on Chapel Hill, it was built in 1834.
The chapel was the scene of near rioting when a schism occurred between the different Methodist factions.
As a result the reformers went on to build the chapel on the High Street which later became the Lecture Hall when Queen Street Chapel was built for the United Methodist Reformed Church.
All the different Methodist churches came together in 1932 when the Methodist Union took place but it was some time before the Yeadon branches merged.
The chapel seen here was demolished in 1958, the present Methodist Church was built in front of the site of this old chapel.
Donated by Edith & Roger Pratt.
G028 – Wesleyan Methodist Chapels, 1955.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapels – 1955
A side view of the chapel which was situated on Chapel Hill.
Land for a burial ground had been purchased in 1825 with the first internment taking place in 1827.
The chapel was built in 1834 and demolished in 1955.
Previous Comments:
Re C117
Goose57
Isaac Kitchen was my father’s cousin. He fought in the Far East during the second world war where he was taken prisoner by the Japanese and treated very badly. On return to England he was severely emaciated and frail. In later life he was the landlord of the ‘Oddfellows Pub’ (which I think is now called The Rag and Louse’) at Yeadon.
17 February 2013.
teleg
My father used to send me to Archie Marshall’s Fruit shop on Saturday night to ask if he had any specked fruit for a penny and he used to say here’s a bagful lad when I got it home my mother would cut out the bad bits and hand it to my bothers and me that was all the fruit we got for the week, that was in the 30’s by the way,
I wondered what had happened to Frank Richardson whom I knew from school days but I am sorry to hear that he was killed during the war. I do remember Herbert West being killed. I remember Fred Hudson as the ‘dame’ in the pantomime and both Albert Tate and Isaac Kitchen were my contemporaries.
27 June 2013.
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Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 26 January 2022.
Last updated: 22 November 2023 – Photo ID: K813. 13 November 2023 – Photo ID: B318, B319, B326, B327 & B328. 18 January 2023 – All images reviewed.
