I know there must have been quarries in the area, as the Romans built their wall, but where was quarrying going on in the 1800s? I have been to South Shields a number of times, but It appeared fairly flat! I have been looking at my husband's RAFFLE family of South Shields ( previously of Lamesley. and part of this family now at Penshaw). In the 1840, 50s, - most if the men were in Quarrying, some were Master quarrymen, and even the matriarch of the family, who died in 1857, was described as a publican ( Adam and Eve Pub) and quarryman. So where were the quarries? Ann