17 scenes of Thonton nostalgia captured across 100 years from farmland to village

This eclectic mix of photos remember Thornton in days gone by.

Plucked from our archives, the nostalgic pictures show how Thornton used to look, right back to the 1920s in some but mainly more recently over the last 50 years or so. There’s an evocative picture of a steam train thundering over the level crossing at Thornton and also some great photos of streets and houses dotted around the town in earlier years.

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19. Bygone Thornton

This picture of the old Thornton Police Station goes back to 1985. The caption on the back reads: "With not-so-cat-like tread Fred the Ghost haunts Thornton police station. Officers on night duty some years back often heard footsteps in the room above the enquiry desk. Upon investigation, they invariably found the room empty Photo: National World