7th. Feb. 1892 Laying Foundation Stone of Welham Hall (old mansion destroyed by fire in 1884) by Col Legard.
19th. Feb. 1892 Heaviest frost since 1860; thermometer at Messrs. Slater's, Malton marked four degrees below Zero. In winter of 1875 it was just below Zero on two occasions.
8th. Aug. 1892 Mr. William Horsley resigned the postmastership of Norton, after holding the appointment many years.
27th. Aug. 1892 Mr. Geo. Brown, of Malton appointed postmaster of Norton. At the end of the following month Mr. Brown threw up the appointment, and he was succeeded by Mr. Richard Hornsey, to whose premises the Post Office was removed. Mr. W. Horsley appointed new Post-master for Norton on the 1st May 1896.
31st. Oct. 1892 Cutting the first sod of the Norton Waterworks. Ceremony performed by Mr. W. G. Searle, chairman of the Local Board.
14th. March 1893 First Confirmation ever held at Norton.
27th. March 1893 Opening of the Norton New Waterworks, by Mrs. William I'Anson, Highfield.
17th. April 1893 Death of Dr. Mackey, Medical Officer for Norton aged 61 years. Dr. Bostock appointed 12 June 1893.
23rd. June 1894 Local Government Inquiry at Norton anent the borrowing of money for the purchase of 'Ivy House' ( now the Council Buildings) First meeting 8 Oct. 1895.
28th. June 1894 Opening of St Peter's Church, Norton (only chancel & nave finished) by the Archbishop of York. Holds 700 persons, cost about £8,000.
9th August 1897 Norton Urban Council increases the Salary of their Clerk from £50 to £70 per annum, after a long discussion. 1897 To mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee a flag staff was erected in front of the Council Buildings.
6th June 1898 First general meeting of Norton Voluntary Schools Company, Ltd., (recently formed to provide additional accommodation at the Bower Memorial Schools.).
5th. Jan 1899 Funeral of Mr. John Snarry V.S. Of Norton.
16/17th February 1899 Malton Steeplechases – two fine days
20th March 1899 Opening of Norton Public Reading Room.
3rd July 1899 Bowling at Welham – first 'double & singles' played here.
1st August 1899 Opening new portion Bower Memorial Schools by Bishop of Hull (the premises belonging to Voluntary Schools Company).
26th August 1899 Seven days' license granted to Malt Shovel at Norton Brewster Sessions.
3rd December 1900 House and Shop in Norton (Mr. W. Dodsworth's) sold by public auction to Mr. Bowland for £565.00.
6th April 1901 New Post Office at Norton (on Mr. Searle's premises ). opened to-day.
27th April 1901 Malton Messenger. What was to be done to St. Peter Street before taken over by the Council?. Some Kerbing and 4/5 yards of Asphalting the Surveyor said.
11th May 1901 Dedication by Archbishop of York of New East Window, St Peter's Church, Norton, as memorial to late Lieut. Raikes.
1st March 1902 Cow Keeper Association --1st Quarterly Meeting of Malton & Norton & District Cow Keepers Assn. Was held at the Blue Ball, they had a membership of 34 and had admitted 102 Cows into the Assn. 6 Cows were sold and 2 had been substituted leaving 98 Cows in the Assn. at this present time.
5th July 1902 Opening of Norton new court house.
19th.July 1903 Destructive Fire at Messrs. Mennell & Clarkson's Mill, Norton, greater part of the mill burnt down.
8th March 1903 Brook Bank House for Sale re:- The late Joshua Hartley.
12th November 1903 Unveiling of memorial window given by Col. Legard, in Norton church to memory of Soldiers killed in the South African War.
13th November 1903 Presentation of Medals at Norton by Col. Legard to men who had fought in the South African War. 1904 St Peter's Vicarage was built.
13th January 1904 Norton Council discusses question of site for proposed new Library.
4th May 1904 Parish Meeting at Norton about proposed Carnegie Library – meeting generally against it.
24th February 1904 Norton Conservative Smoking Concert at the Buckrose Hotel.
12th April 1904 Westfield property, Norton sold by auction for £890; Bakehouse yard property for £560.
8th September 1904 Fire at Messrs. Barr & Whitaker's Mill.
16th.March 1905 Workman named Thomas Allen, severely crushed by falling timber at Barr & Whittaker's Mill, Norton.
4th April 1905 Model Farm, Norton offered for sale at Talbot Hotel – withdrawn at £1,950.
1st May 1905 Three legged Chicken hatched by Mr.C. Scaife .
12th December 1905 Wellington House, Norton offered for sale by auction and withdrawn at £1,250.
24th November 1905 Mr. John Jackson of Brook Bank, Norton attains his hundredth year.
14th December 1905 Death of Mr. John Jackson of Brook Bank, Norton.
24th March 1906 Another small fire at Barr & Whittaker's Mill, Norton.
14th May 1906 Bicycle Gymkhana at Norton.
12th July 1907 Induction of Rev. W. J. Munby Coombes at Norton.
3rd March 1908 Sale of Model Farm, Norton to Mr. H. Searle for £2,100.
13th January 1909 Old Police Station, Norton opened as parish room for St Peter's Guild.
5th February 1909 Fierce gale – Waterloo Theatre (in the Bark Knotts Field) blown down.
15th August 1909 Patrol of boy scouts raised at Norton.
24th. January 1910 Messrs. T. Obank & Sons of Bradford, secure tender for partial completion of St. Peter's Church, Norton.
6th. March 1910 Mr. H. S. Cooke appointed organist at St. Peter's Church, in succession to Mr. H. H. Routledge resigned.7th. April 1910. At a meeting of St. Peter's parishioners it was resolved to proceed with building of first stage of the tower, as well as the completion of the nave.
2nd May 1910 Welham Bowling Club's new green on Love Lane used for the first time.
2nd June 1910 Welham Club's new bowling green formally opened by Mr. R. T. G. Abbott.
19th July 1910 Hambleton House, Norton, sold to Col. Sir Charles Allan for £2,600.
16th. September 1910 – Miss A Pankhust addresses the Suffragette meeting.
15th December 1910 Announced that Mr. R. P. Botterill of Doncaster, had taken Horton Cottage Training Establishment, Norton.
12th. January 1911 At a meeting of Norton parishioners it was decided to proceed with second stage of the tower of St. Peter's Church.
17th. March 1911 Man named Moiran convicted at Norton for cutting hair off horses' tails and selling it.
13th. October 1911 Dedication of nave and first stage of tower of St. Peter's Church, Norton, by the Archbishop (Dr. Lang) of York.
29th May 1912 Jack Brereton of Filey, makes attempt to fly from Filey to Leeds on a Blackburn Monoplane. He landed at Norton Parks, and ultimately abandoned flight.
25th July 1912 Whilst giving flying exhibitions at the Malton Cottage Hospital Fete, Mr. J. Brereton had a narrow escape from death, his monoplane falling and turning turtle in a corn field. Brereton was pinned underneath, and escaped with bruises, but the monoplane was smashed.
9th August 1913 In the early hours of this morning Messrs. Mennell & Son's saw mills were burnt down for the 2nd time – damage estimated at £1,500.
14th October 1913 A joint committee of the Malton & Norton Rural and Urban authorities resolved to purchase a Merryweather motor fire engine at a cost of £987. 1st August 1914 the cost was over £1,100 with accessories.
12th November 1913 Bishop of Beverley dedicates oak pulpit, organ screen, and stained window in South Chapel of St Peter's Church, Norton, to memory of Miss Harriet Caroline Hopkins.
25th January 1914 Part of Parliament Street subsided, and horse and cab had narrow escape of falling in.
8th March 1915 Whilst motoring up Settrington Road Dr. Bostock ran into a string of racehorse belonging to W. Cotcheifer, and two of them were knocked down.
11th January 1916 Dedication of organ screen at St Peter's Church, Norton, in memory of Col. Hopkins, son of Mr. W. R. Nines Hopkins, who was killed in France. Death of Mr. W. R. Innes Hopkins, of Leat House, aged 93 on the 21st December 1920.
12th.July 1917 Memorial Window unveiled in St Peter's Church, Norton, to the memory of Ptes. Wilfred and Maurice Hornsey, 5th. Yorks Regiment.
13th December 1917 The Bishop of Hull dedicates the new Railings and Screen at St Peter's Church, Norton.
26th January 1919 Vicar of Norton announced that field adjoining church had been purchased for £450. 13th December 1920 Bishop of Beverley consecrates new portion of Norton Cemetery.
10th April 1919 Death of Mr. Chas Mennell, Norton aged 71.
20th May 1919 Union Inn, Norton sold to Messrs. Russells and Wrangham for £3,400.
29th July 1919 Norton Villa sold to Mr. J. Tate for £600, and nursery for £570; and adjoining house to Mr. Wharram for £600.
13th November 1919 Norton Chrysanthemum Show revived.
11th.November 1921 Unveiling of memorial window in Norton Church by Col. A. D. Legard.
20th June 1922 Slight fire at the Mill Hill Laundry, Norton.
22nd June 1922. Blacksmith's shop at Mennell's Mill destroyed by fire.
16th. August 1923. Sir Guy Gaunt opens golf course in Welham Park.
19th November 1923. Sir Guy Gaunt opens Majestic Picture Theatre at Norton.
8th September 1925. Clarence House, Norton, sold for £1,110 to Mr. F. Bower.
9th December 1925. The new footbridge extension at the County Bridge over the River Derwent at Malton used for the first time to-day.
10th November 1926. Opening of the Empire Ballroom, at Norton.
1sr.March 1927. It was resolved that the surveyor draw up a plan of a bye-pass road from Derwent Bank to Welham Road, Norton.
16th January 1928. Fire at Hyde Park Motor Garage, Norton. Damage done to the extent of £3,000.
27th August 1928 At the Norton Urban Council to-night, a new scheme for a proposed bye-pass road was submitted by Sir James Legard.
27th September 1928 Joint meeting of Malton & Norton Urban Councils proposed new bye pass scheme.
15th November 1928. A branch of the Junior Imperial League formed at Norton tonight.
20th November 1928 – Conference held at the Malton Town Hall on the subject of the proposed by-pass road scheme for Malton. It was resolved to ask the Surveyors of the respective authorities to prepare a scheme.
13th February 1930. Outbreak of fire at Mill Hill Laundry.
27th December 1930. Serious fire at Mr. W. H. Searle's Model Farm.
5th January 1932 Furniture van, laden with packets of tea, partially destroyed by fire on County Bridge, Norton.
7th September 1932 Mr. A. Y. Jordan, has been appointed head-master at Norton Boys' Council School in succession to Mr. Appleton.
21st October 1932 Death at Rillington of Mr. George Shaw, aged 94, the man who shod 'Blink Bonny'.
2nd April1933 Unveiling of tablet at St Peter's Church, Norton, by Col Sir J. D. Legard commemorating completion of church.
2nd November 1933 It was announced that the North and East Riding County Councils had turned down the question of the proposed amalgamation of Malton and Norton.
22nd. July 1935 It was announced that it was proposed to build a Bacon Factory at the bottom of Parliament Street, Norton.
20th November 1936 Opening of Bacon Factory at Norton by Lord Middleton.
6th May 1937 Foundation stone of St. Peter's Church House, Norton, laid by Mrs. J. C. Fawcett.
21st October 1937 The Ministry of Transport have approved Malton & Norton By-pass on the north side of Malton.
19th December 1937 Archbishop of York opens New Church House at Norton.
Mrs. Monkman of Vine Grove, re- Al Jolson, the Jazz Singer which he sang Sonny Boy, she recalls, was shown at the Exchange Cinema, which she went to see. This was so called, because the building had been the Corn Exchange previously known locally as The Bughouse, she remembered the Majestic being built at Norton, advertised having the latest Western Electric Sound System. Patrons rapidly left Malton and went to Norton for the twice weekly entertainment but drifted back when Malton's Picture Hall was given a re-model and became the Palace, it had double seats in the back rows (the talk of the town).
Charles Wray - Butcher, Norton sold any cut of beef at 8/6d a stone, Bacon 4 1/2d a pound when buying a side at a time.
Bricks with T.B.N. (Tommy Brand) & J. Lyons. Hutton & North Cave Sand Co. Who had sand pits at Huttons Ambo & North Cave. Proprietor, Mr. McCormick lived at Middlesbrough and the office was above Fletcher's Butchers Shop – Circa 1920.
1943 Malton & Norton Urban Councils were commended on their programme which formed the Holiday-at-Home Week. The principal streets of Malton & Norton were decorated, and the profits will go to the Malton Hospital, Malton & Norton District Nursing Association, and Malton & Norton Youth Organisations. A children's fun fair, with roundabouts. Swings, and donkeys was held at Newgate, Malton and was at Norton Royal Oak Square until last Wednesday. On of the best attractions of the week was the Norton Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund Gift Shop at Messrs. R Hornsey & sons, Commercial Street, Norton. The Gift Shop was formally opened last Saturday by the East Riding Director of the Red Cross, Mrs. De Yarburgh-Bateson. The Chairman (Mr. W Frankish) said that since the beginning of the year £400 had been raised by a variety of efforts. At least 40 men from Norton were prisoners of war, requiring a 10s parcel each week, a total of £20 a week. He said the response to the appeal for gifts was "staggering" and it was hoped to raise £200 at the shop in the coming week. (Extract from the Yorkshire Herald Saturday August 7th 1943)
Old Norton School opposite was Jefferson's Butchers. Mr. & Mrs. Jefferson always had time to have a word with the youngsters who passed their open door. Grandson Malcolm Laycock recalls his Granddad Jefferson taking him down to Scarborough Road Railway Bridge after dark so he could see the glow of Hull burning.
1967 A New Library, It would be built on the site of the former Boy's School in Commercial Street which had been empty since the County Secondary School opened in Langton Road in 1963.
NORTON POPULATION
1801 615
1823 1017
1831 1425
1841 1644
1851 2315
1861 2983
1931 2935
1871 3170
1881 3482
1891 3683
1901 3842
1911 3990
1921 3854
