North Delaval (New Delaval) Primitive Methodist chapel

John Walley has identified the location of a Primitive Methodist chapel at North Delaval (New Delaval).  There is no current evidence of the chapel – its location is the south western corner of Blyth Golf Club.  However, early Twentieth Century Ordnance Survey maps  show terraced housing backing onto Plessey Road and the Plessey Wagonway  as far as the western edge of the golf course – and the chapel was located at the western end of the terrace.

Remarkably, the 1920 map shows that within half a mile of the Prim chapel were three other Methodist chapels:

• a Wesleyan chapel north of the infants school
• an Independent Methodist chapel south of the infants school
• a United Methodist chapel on Phoenix Street

Grid Ref:   NZ 29222  79639

Additional information:

Within a week of John identifying this chapel, by complete co-incidence, an article in the monthly newsletter of the Englesea Brook Museum of Primitive Methodism featured  a picture of a trowel in the Museum’s collection which commemorates the laying of the foundation stone at New Delaval PM Sunday School, Northumberland, in 1882.