Away from the centre of Malpas, the cemetery on Chester Road was opened in 1870 by Malpas Burial Board. The clock on the chapel of rest was made by local clockmaker Arthur Callcott. A row of cottages was built in Oathills in 1884 by a local man who returned to Malpas after prospering as a draper in London, to help provide low cost housing for local workers. His philanthropy was also extended to the donation of land and money for the new Alport school and for restoration work to St Oswalds.
The Jubilee Hall was built in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee on land donated by the Marquis of Cholmondeley and a public subscription which raised £12,000.
By the turn of the 20th century the life of Malpas revolved around the Church and the Jubilee Hall, which was less than 30 years old. It was a meeting place for the parish council and the venue for lectures, clubs and dances, including the annual Jubilee Hall Ball.
From 1914 to 1919 The Bolling, formerly the Lower Rectory, in Church Street, was a Red Cross Hospital for those wounded in action in the First World War. Following the war the Spanish ‘Flu swept through Malpas leaving 35 of its victims buried in Malpas cemetery between October 1918 and February 1919, 21 of whom were under 45 years of age. The war memorial in the grounds of St Oswald’s church was dedicated in February 1920 to those men of Malpas who lost their lives in The Great War.
Malpas expanded again in the years following the Second World War. First with the building by the local authority of the Springfield Estate followed by housing around Leech Road and Mercer Close and in the Oathills area.
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