Norton Green c1920

A view of the pond on Norton Green looking north east towards a public house and a shop. Possibly c1920A view of the pond on Norton Green looking north east towards a public house and a shop. Possibly c1920

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  1. The Green 1920 “The Hambeltonian”,1790-1935 for servants of “Big-Houses” during the late Victorian period now paper shop Hawes , Grocers and general dealers , now Westminster Bank. The trees visible over this block were known as the Stocks-Trees” as the law-officer or Pinderman had his “Kitty”(cell) and a set of stocks outside his “pinfold behind the National School Just visible to the right on the tree sky-line is a section of Norton-House i760-1934 (a second floor windw on the north wing of this magnificent Georgian mansion ,just visble ) home of the Hogg family , 1790-1820s the social and radical centre of South Durham , under Thomas Jefferson Hogg friend and companion of Bysshe Shelly with poets Wordswort, Coleridge and Byron and other poets and musicians as guests and visitors. The village Unicorn Headed pump 1877-1939. The finger post read (n)Sedgefield (w) Darlington. Lower deck of a tram-car Note in pond reflection the double-door front of Norton Blacksmith Forge

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