Locations familiar to the Burton on Trent Trease family

Abbey Cottage, Horninglow Street

The Trease family home was knocked down to make way for brewery expansion but houses opposite appear to have survived. The pleasant house with Gothic windows on the far right of this photograph taken in the late 1990s is believed to be Abbey Cottage Horninglow Street (now 127) where Mr Barratt, a coal merchant who witnessed John Trease's will in 1880, lived.

Horninglow Street Wesleyan Chapel

In 1857, when it would have been much attended by members of the Trease family, White's Derbyshire directory states that "The Wesleyan Chapel, Horninglow Street, is a neat brick building rebuilt in 1813 ; it is neatly fitted up with galleries, and the body of the Chapel has been recently pewed ; attached to it are two neat houses for the ministers."

The British History on-line website gives a more general history of the Chapel stating that it was a "meeting house on the North side of Horninglow Street opposite the later junction of that road with Guild Street. By 1837 the chapel was rebuilt with a preacher's house and a chapel keeper's house behind. In 1843 the Chapel was enlarged. On census Sunday 1851, the congregation was 90 in the morning (plus another 70 in the Sunday School) and the evening congregation was 97. Average Sunday attendance used to be 170 in the morning (plus 70 in the Sunday School) and 200 in the evening - minister blamed a schism for the recent drop in numbers. The Chapel closed in 1871, was sold in 1876 and was later demolished." Unfortunately, so far no pictures or photographs of this Chapel have been found on-line that are free of copyright constraints, so the above description must suffice.

Station Street Wesleyan Chapel

When the Horninglow Street chapel closed in 1871 the congregation presumably transferred to the Station Street Chapel, opened the same year on the corner between Station Street and Union Street. It is thought that it was at this chapel that Ann Trease worked as a Sunday School Teacher and was presented with a combined Bible and Hymnbook when she left on February 9th 1879.

This chapel is described in Kelly's 1896 directory - "The Wesleyan Chapel in Station Street erected in 1871 on a site opposite the Midland Hotel at a cost of £9,000 is of brick with Bath stone dressings in the Gothic Style and has a tower with a spire. It affords 900 sittings.

The chapel was closed in 1958 and later demolished. The National Archives has a printed drawing of the chapel dated about 1880 under reference 6D72/251 but hopefully some photos taken before it was demolished will have survived and be available for use.