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It would sound better if I said the large brick was not common in Norton.
It is not Cook street Sarah, nor is it Stapleton street, the other street on the right down Station road towards the station. As a lad I had a sack barrow and delivered baskets of washing to a washer woman in Cook street every Saturday. At a shilling a basket that was one to Cook street and one back to the owner, it meant I was well off with pocket money. Miss Goothy round the corner in Mill Lane and Miss Page on the green were easy I could get two baskets on the barrow, some of the others in the High street and on the Green had large baskets so it was one out one back. If it was wet Dad would help putting them all on the truck and covering them he still gave me the money, ‘don’t tell your mum’, no way. What is puzzling about the picture is a set of stone stairs on the right of the picture to an upper storey or is it? The girls are also sitting on what appears to be a stone or block wall when brick would probably have been cheaper. I cannot remember such a set up around the green, not with front gardens which look very well kept.
A wild guess. It’s a while since I lived in Norton but I’d like to know do the houses bear any resemblance to the cottages in Crook Street, off Station Road, Norton? As I say, just a wild guess.
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It would sound better if I said the large brick was not common in Norton.
Style of the stonework in cottages looks very much like North Yorks to me rather than South Durham. Great Ayton/Ingleby/Stokesley.
The houses seem to be built of a larger brick than the stock size building brick which was not common in Norton.
It is not Cook street Sarah, nor is it Stapleton street, the other street on the right down Station road towards the station. As a lad I had a sack barrow and delivered baskets of washing to a washer woman in Cook street every Saturday. At a shilling a basket that was one to Cook street and one back to the owner, it meant I was well off with pocket money. Miss Goothy round the corner in Mill Lane and Miss Page on the green were easy I could get two baskets on the barrow, some of the others in the High street and on the Green had large baskets so it was one out one back. If it was wet Dad would help putting them all on the truck and covering them he still gave me the money, ‘don’t tell your mum’, no way. What is puzzling about the picture is a set of stone stairs on the right of the picture to an upper storey or is it? The girls are also sitting on what appears to be a stone or block wall when brick would probably have been cheaper. I cannot remember such a set up around the green, not with front gardens which look very well kept.
A wild guess. It’s a while since I lived in Norton but I’d like to know do the houses bear any resemblance to the cottages in Crook Street, off Station Road, Norton? As I say, just a wild guess.