2 thoughts on “Norton High Street c1900”

1. This picture raises questions, the trees are obviously young whips which had not been in position very long. I have seen a photo somewhere where Norton green had no trees the date of the photo was pre 1885 so who planted all the trees and why?
   I have no memory of the trams running yet my first real memory for some reason is standing at the front of a bus with my mother watching men take up the rails in the high street and my father getting a load of the wooden blocks from between the rails, we burnt them in the pig food boiler for a long time I remember the tar smell.
   The green lawn sections must have been put down in Norton High street at the time the rails were lifted as they were there when I walked to Norton board School as a reluctant five year old, the first rails arrived around the green areas about that period, was it something to do with the Jubilee for King George V for which we school kids got a mug and a bag of buns. One year later the king was dead and we were building up to a Coronation for Edward, another year on and it was changed to George V1 hence my claim to have seen four Monarchs.
   There must have been a reason for filling the green and high street with trees what was it? Most of Norton was Church owned did they have some hand in it. Looking at the high street without the green islands it is quite wide for the whole length, could it have been the people in the large houses allowing for the future and private cars staking their claim.
   A lot of questions I would be interested in the answers. My own father as a young school boy would have known the high street as shown.

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2. My Mum would have been a little girl living in Norton then in awe looking at photo .

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