Between 1871 and 1881 Main Street became the now familiar East End and West End.

In 1871, Samuel Lythe was an Apprentice Bricklayer aged 18 and in 1881 he had progressed to being a 'Bricklayer Master employing 3 men'. By 1891, a 'Bricklayer and Builder' he and his wife Mary had 3 sons Sidney, Ernest and Harold and 3 daughters Elizabeth, Bertha and Florence. E. Lythe, Builder founded in 1872 is now at 1 Kirk Lane in Walkington.

George Boynton was the Blacksmith throughout the 1871 to 1891 period (born 1816 - 1820), his shop was eventually incorporated into the Ferguson Fawsitt Arms as the cocktail bar.

The East Riding Asylum was under construction on Beverley Road in 1871. It was being built on Broadgate Farm on a site of just over 412 acres purchased in 1865 for £26,500. In 1869 once it was decided to build the Asylum on 62 acres the remainder was sold for £25,100 so recovering most of the original cost of the land. William Porteous a bricklayer was resident, together with his family and two other bricklayers. The building work was completed in 1871 at a cost of £43,085 16s 7d and opened on Wednesday October 25 with 105 patients transferred from the Clifton Asylum in York. The last patients left the Broadgate Hospital on April 12 1989.

In 1881 there were four families of Railway workers from around the country living in Walkington, almost certainly working on the Hull, Barnsley and West Riding line which ran through Little Weighton and under the Wolds. They are thought to have lived at the bottom of Northgate in the 1920's history (see Part 6). More information about the line can be found here and here.