17 nostalgic scenes of Thornton captured on camera across a Century

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.