hi froth good mornining to you
how long as that norton been demolished
yes it was a real hum dinger of a pub many years ago in its hay
day . it must have been the seventies the rot started to
settle in there , our kid used to used that pub in the fifties
he used to live in pype hayes rd right up until the clearance
of the area he worked down bagot street at the midland dairy all is life and then retired and put out to pasture
he still ives local up padmore rd along with another sister -inlaw of mine she lives at the juction of padmore
i beleive many years ago there has beenmany a shooting and stabbing during the latter part of the norton history ;
have a nice day froth ; best wishes astonian ;;
My late father in law worked as a gardener for the breweries including looking after the bowling greens which a number of pubs had (before they became car parks) and I think the Norton was one of them, we are talking 1930s to 1950s, can,t check with him he died in 1986 aged 86.... Eric
Some time in the early seventies I was driving back from London and gave a lift to a hitch-hiker on the A45 (I often gave lifts in those days; today - never!). This bloke asked if I was going anywhere near Tyburn Road, which I was, and if I could drop him off at The Norton. He said he was the manager, and his car had conked out while he too was on his way back from London. All I can recall of him was that his name was Ken, and he was one hard-looking character, but good company. When we got to The Norton he asked if I'd like to come in 'for a few', but I declined....
Big Gee
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