The entrance to Norton Cleansing Depot on Norton High Street (east side). To the left of the photograph is the public toilets. We think the photograph was taken in 1970.
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The entrance to Norton Cleansing Depot on Norton High Street (east side). To the left of the photograph is the public toilets. We think the photograph was taken in 1970.
Three members of my family worked there; my grandad Walter Wood, my dad Gordon and his brother Kenny. They always went in the George or the Highland Lad on pay day.
I remember this part of Norton High Street. It is now a nursing home run be Anchor Housing.
OOPS, I think I just got that wrong, the building on the left was the toilet and the one on the right a sub station, sorry, memory must be starting to creak.
In my memory of walking to Norton Board passing the place each day that entrance was cut through the wall much later. The actual entrance to the Tramsheds complete with tram lines was on the other side of the Office left of picture and directly into the shed the building to the right was the Toilet. There are several photographs showing this on the site. I was actually looking at one on Monday night and pointed out that although a tram was the main feature of the picture nothing has changed, that part facing north is still almost exactly as it was 90-100 years ago apart from some fencing around the trees. Bill is correct about the pub, all the Norton High Street pubs did a good trade in those days, people tended to drink close to home, much easier after a convivial night to put the bodies on a sack barrow and wheel them home, or drop them in the pond, depends how we felt.
I remember the depot well, with living at Norton Blue Hall at the time, and the local watering hole opposite for the lads that worked there, this being the George and Dragon pub, a VAUX house at the time, I also remember being sat in the bar having a drink, and being chocker block on the afternoon especially on Thursday, pay day! and the lads talking about the days events and putting the world and work to right.
Were the old tram sheds