Has any one on the list any idea of how I could find out where a "Billiard Marker" may have worked in Bishopwearmouth at the turn of 19/20th centuries please? Were there any well known billiard halls, for example? Family memoirs say John Locke, the person in question, worked in a Gentleman's Club . That may have been a fabrication but were there any well known ones in the area I wonder. He lived at Tatham Street, then Murton Street and finally at Grange Crescent. Any ideas gratefully received. Cheers Lesley Email: Lesley@forrest1.demon.co.uk Fax: UK: 08700 517479 International: +448700517479 -------------------------------------------------

Hi Lesley There was a billiard hall in Roker Avenue just a little way down from the pub called The Fort---think it was called Sloanes No doubt there will have been other halls in Sunderland Regards George