A mill-stone found during excavation for Norton Medical Centre in June 2000. (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Harbron)
Excavations in Norton. 2000
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A mill-stone found during excavation for Norton Medical Centre in June 2000. (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Harbron)
re query by Helen Sykes. Tanners Bank was thus named as the end of the line of the tanning industry of Mr Page (Page of Red-House). “The Tannery” ,1780 in S.E corner of Norton Green, was demolished in 2001. A Mr Fothergill had a bone-glue factory on Tanners bank, in the 1800s. The housing at that time was on the north side of the old Sunderland-York “Coach-Road”, ending at the blacksmith forge and stables opposite the present Red-Lion. The stable and forge building in Rowan-Yard are now used by J Hyde the Joiner. A line of middle-class Victorian housing was built on the south side of Tanners-Bank in the 1890s.
I have been tracing my family tree and found that my great grandad was born in Tanners Bank in Norton in 1874 ,can anyone tell me when it was demolished, are there any old photos? Any help would be brilliant
Found May 23rd 2002 during excavation of land on Tanners Bank (near the Red-Lion) Norton, for Norton Medical Centre. The stone is 60″ in diameter and 14″ thick, and is dark Shap-Grit, a first cut upper-stone. When cleaned the following inscrition was found on slope top near rim “Maundy. 1762”. This is believed to be the site of Bank-Mill, There were 3 known windmills in the village. Mount-Pleasant, Albany and Summerhouse. This mill could have had a short life as the bank and land on which the stone was found is sandy and unstable, a large house of Mr Fothergill built in the late 1800s had to be “beam stabilised” for over 30 years till its demoltion in 1972.