- River Derwent: Horses which drew barges along the river came along the bank on Norton Road after leaving the barge to discharge or load merchandise at the several warehouses on the opposite bank. The horses then crossed the river by a wooden footbridge, on to the island, reaching the actual stone bridge about opposite the house which stood there until recent times. The supports which carried this wooden bridge were still visible in the early thirties at lower water having survived from the mid 1800's.
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- A soup kitchen was set up in the brew house at Malton Lodge, and Fitzwilliam subscribed to a fund to provide 'good strong Soup' for the hungry poor. A charge, however was made of 1d for a quart of Soup and a penny Loaf – a precaution lest the charity be extended to the local pigs. Potatoes and Salt Fish – the consequence of a fortunate glut of Herring at Hull were also sold cheaply to the needy. But when a fund was proposed to buy grain to provide Bread & Flour at subsidised prices, Fitzwilliam refused to subscribe and compelled the abandonment of the scheme, on the ground that Parliament had urged landowners not to aggravate the general shortage by interfering with the natural operation of supply and demand.
- In 1800-1 as in 1799-1800 urban and industrial authorities provide relief in cash, fuel, clothing and soap. Soup kitchens, supported by subscriptions or through the rates, were established in many urban and industrial locations over the winter of 1799-1800. The major attraction other than saving on cereals was that the system would lessen the burdens of the poor rate upon the town. At first, soup was distributed to families nominated by subscribers to the funds, but the system began to falter under the sheer weight of claimants during 1800-1, when vast queues were reported in the winter. In addition, funds were also regularly expended on clothing, blankets and fuel for distribution to the hardest-pressed recipients. Soup as dislikes. At Malton 'it was not held in such esteem by the lower People' and according to the vicar 'either shamefully wasted, or given to the pigs'. The refusal of the poor at Malton to buy fish heads after the supply of fish ran out is less revealing than the offer. The penny loaf with soup in 1799-1800 was not repeated at Malton in the next year. (Taken from Dearth & Distress in Yorkshire 1793-1802 by Roger A. E. Wells.)
- Malton Town Goal, called by some the 'Black Hole' is a small narrow arched place, about 17 feet by 14 feet 3 inches. Men and women are kept separate during confinement here, and are brought from the North-Riding House of Correction to the Sessions in this town, which are held once in two years. The constable is the keeper, without a salary. He furnishes his prisoners with victuals from the adjoining public house. The only ventilation which the rooms of this gaol can receive, is through an iron-grating in each door, about seven inches square. They have barrack-bedsteads; which are supplied with fresh straw every three or four months. I found no prisoners here. August 31st 1802. (Neild's / Remarks on the Prisons in Yorkshire. (Published in the 'Gentleman's Magazine for August 1805. Page 693 column 2. Afterwards republished in a separate work on Prisons.)
- HENRY GRATTAN was elected to the House of Commons in 1805, but only sat for about a year.
- ST. LEONARD'S CHURCH comprises a nave, a north aisle, chancel, and tower, surmounted by a spire which has been left unfinished, in the form of a truncated cone. The chancel and tower repaired in 1806, and the outer walls and roof rebuilt in 1807.
- (The churchyard was enlarged, and the vestry rebuild in 1815. Eight Bells were hung on the 5th December 1768, and restored in 1868. St Leonard's Church Glass panels for the clock face were made in the Potteries around 1897 and they were carries from the glassworks on a barge along the River Trent and then along the River Derwent to Malton. 'Unshipped' they came up Hawkswell's Lane, then Church Hill, no doubt hauled by strong horses on a flat wagon. Earl Fitzwilliam who gave the clock as a memorial of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the clock was started on December 31st 1897. Starting of the new Clock in St Leonard's Tower, Malton by Mr. G. Markham, representing Earl Fitzwilliam, who gave the Clock to the town as a memorial of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
- In January 1915 Malton Urban District Council decided to turn out the light in St Leonard's Clock.
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