Around the Village Photographs
16 - Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Curzon Street
Curzon Street was named after the Curzon family. Richard William Penn Curzon was Lord of the Manor in 1806 at the time of the Enclosure Act and owned about half village.
Curzon Street was originally called 'Bag Lane' because it was the collection point for women who collected bags of sewing to take home to work on in the evening.
In 1847 there were 87 frame work knitters in the village. In 1811 the Luddites’ threat to destroy the stocking frames in the village was averted by the payment of an extra shilling per dozen pair.
The old Chapel, which was the first Gotham Wesleyan Chapel, was built in 1836 (the date having been removed off the fascia) is now two houses (Nos.13 and 15 Curzon Street).
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