The duck pond at Norton 2006. Photograph courtesy of Tim Hardy. 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
The duck pond at Norton 2006. Photograph courtesy of Tim Hardy.
Two wonderful and evocative photos Tim. Folk will remember sledging down that slight slope from the Church and hoping the ice-covered pond would hold as you skimmed across the surface. Another pleasure of this photo is the growth of the trees replacing those felled during the dreadful Dutch-Elm disease of the mid 1980s. Four of the late 1800s planting are shown, with the tallest in the “Vicars-Plantation” far left of red-phone box photo. The new “Jubilee-Tree”, is between the two flower-tubs, far side of the pond on same photo.
I took both of these photographs on different occasions during the winter of 2005/2006. The photo with the telephone box shows a light sprinkling of snow with the Duck Pond frozen over, whereas the other picture feaures heavier snow with broken ice on the pond. This photograph also features the old fountain plinth, this was removed in 2006 for new floodlit version.