A view of electric tram no. 32 proceeding along Norton High Street.c1910A view of electric tram No. 32 proceeding along Norton High Street. c1910A street lamp included in a view of an electric tram on Norton High Street.c1910 
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I was very interested to see the photograph of the tram on your web site. It was of real interest to me because my father drove the last tram from Norton to Stockton his name was Robert Cook. I would be very pleased if there is some person in Stockton with a photograph of this event and would post this on your site. I will keep looking in anticipation for a photograph.
A tram heading for the Green, with the conductor on rear platform and passengers on the upper deck facing forward . Far left is “Paradise” a series of cottages named Paradise-Row, behind was Paradise-Yard and Paradise Place. These were demolished in 1938 to make way for a row of shops, including a Co-op butchers shop. Only one cottage remains at the north-end, now a dry-cleaners and hairdressers. The pavement bears out the earlier path in front of “Paradise” and newer(larger)1938 ,paving stones of the gardens in front of the cottages The slip view of a white building between tree and tram is “Blue Hall Farm” which was demolished in 1935,it is now the site of the Yorkshire Bank. Right of the picture in the distance is Smirke Farm, a post medieval farm-house, and Ridley-Yard, now small speciality shops and the traffic entrance to Safeways. To the right of the tram are young trees of “Victoria Gardens”, a setting of rose-garden and gravel walks for the villages Queen Victoria, Diamond Jubilee Cross, 1897. The cross is still in place in a very much smaller but still beautiful flowered setting. (Thanks to Council Parks Dept) The wooden finger-post reads < SEDGEFIELD HARTLEPOOL > < DURHAM SUNDERLAND >
The picture can be dated as prior to 1905 as no advertising material is visible on the upper deck decency screens. Advertising material was applied from 1905 onwards