Fourteen months later William Greensmith, aged 78, followed Leonard Hobkinson. Before he went he had still time to make one further gift to the church he had loved and served so long. The Leaders' Meeting of Tuesday, March 20th, 1870, contains the following minute :-

Proposed by Brother Sugden and seconded by Brother Taylor that "This Meeting acknowledges the munificent gift of a valuable plot of land situate in the West End Park, for the erection of a Minister's House, by our venerable father Mr William Greensmith and would cordially recommend the acceptance of the same."

The next minute recommended that "a Memorial on Parchment be drawn up by the Minister and Society Stewards before the next Quarterly meeting and. at that time presented to him."

The first Ministers' House had been at 2 Beulah Place (now Beulah Street). This had been a rented house as had been the second house, Wesleyville, in the corner of Cheltenham Crescent and Oxford Street. This house became in 1904 the residence of Mr F T Kettlewell's father, and Mr Kettlewell still retains a small east wing of the original house as his office. It is a pleasant thought that whenever lie sits "a-treasuring" he does so in what used to he the Minister's study. It was decided that the Rev Josiah Pearson, who had arrived in 1869, should call his flock together and set in motion a Building Fund.

Mr Greensmith had retired to his bed on returning from the March Leaders' Meeting and never rose from it again, dying on June 4th, 1870.

His original letter, dated December 28th, is preserved, as is a copy of the receipt. The receipt is for £477 14s. 4d. and is dated January 1st, 1875. Mr Palliser, the Treasurer, had lost no time in balancing his accounts. On June 19th this noble gift was acknowledged by the presentation of an "Illuminated Manuscript Address" presented in the Band Room to Mr Musgrave. Tea was "on the tables at half past six pm precisely."

The Rev F J Sharr deserves to be remembered in the Circuit for he could see that before long there would be a need for a Wesleyan Chapel on the South side of Harrogate and, on his own initiative, bought a piece of land, which he presented to the Wesley Trustees, in 1875. Four years later Trinity Chapel was opened on this land.

In May, 1876, John Benson died, having been caretaker of the 1824 chapel during all but a year or two of its 38 years of life and having looked after Harrogate Wesleyan for 13 years, until he was provided by the Trust with a pension in May, 1875. He had been a faithful soul for fifty years and had been the Leader of the largest class in the Church for many of those years.

Reporting on the opening of Trinity Chapel on 11th April, 1879, the local press paid tribute to the missionary zeal of the Harrogate Wesleyans in these words; "With the rapid growth of Harrogate, the extension of this important religious denomination, the Wesleyan Methodists, has kept pace, and for some time the substantial edifice in Chapel Street, wherein they worshipped, has been wholly inadequate to the demands made upon it, and a movement was eventually instituted with the object of providing chapel accommodation in another portion of the town.

"The beautiful new Wesleyan Chapel, lately erected in West Park, Harrogate, was opened yesterday under the most auspicious circumstances which fine weather, large congregations, liberal contributions, and widely manifested interest in a great cause could conduce. And the Wesleyans of this town may be acquitted of any tendencies to shallow vanity if, in dedicating the handsome structure to the service of He alone for Whose glory it is intended, they experienced a glowing flush of pride at the thought that they had been enabled to erect so handsome a building for the advancement of His cause.

"At the time of commencing the opening service, at which the Rev W B Pope, DD, the theological tutor at Didsbury College, was announced to preach, a large and fashionable congregation assembled in the new edifice which was that day to be consecrated to the Trinity, as its name implies." Methodism had indeed become respectable.

The foundation stones for the new chapel had been laid on August 28th, 1877 one of these was laid by Thomas Tombleson of Barton-on-Humber, whose father had laid the corner-stone of the mother chapel. By the time of the opening ceremony £6,000 had been subscribed of a total estimated cost, which would include the erection of a spire, of over £11,000.