2 thoughts on “Norton Green in 1902 and 2003.”

  1. The little girl in foreground has a two wheel barrow as a dolls-pram. A child can be seen sitting in the door-way of the Fox and Hound , far right, while a lady with a white jug stands by the black window shutters . The drinking horse is pulling a light dray or milk-cart (note ledge around wagon) Above the horse is Nelson Yard entrance, then Reed the Grocer , who above the door proclaimed in gold-leaf on a glass panel “Grocer to the Gentry”. “The Unicorn” one of the oldest “pubs” in Cleveland in its time-honoured lime-wash as used for hundreds of years to point up Ale-Houses. The sign-post reads Darlington (west) Sedgefield (north) Two Eton-collared boys stand by the cast-iron Unicorn headed pump 1877-1939 – Slide by Mr George Wannlees of Simonside-Hall

  2. Norton Green 1902-2003 T109.  Photos 1902,from glass negative 2003, taken by Mr G Wanless Simonside Hall, South Shields

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