In 1846 the village grocer had his house registered for worship and he probably promoted the building in 1847 of a Primitive Methodist Chapel, to cater for the increasing number of worshippers. By 1854 it was called the Rehoboth Chapel. Local preachers would walk from miles around. There was a flourishing Sunday School and in 1897 33 families were chapel-goers. In 2018 it was acquired by the Radegund Gospel Hall Trust, for the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
Arthur Balls from 47 Chapel Lane was a preacher and Sunday School teacher. Mrs Libby Balls was chapel caretaker and cleaner and the chapel key was always kept at no. 47. At Harvest Festival, the Chapel was filled with sheaves of wheat, barley and oats; there were flowers and fruit from gardens and hedges and vegetables of all kinds.
When Len Loates saw this photo, he immediately identified himself by the straw hat he was wearing. It had a bright red band and he remembered the embarrassment he felt as it had been passed down from his eldest sister Win. The young boy in the light jacket with dark hair, staring somewhat defiantly with a friend leaning on his shoulder is his brother Wilf Loates, who was born in Chapel Road on August 5th 1910.
