Trow Rocks

Trow Rocks

Image Details

Title Trow Rocks
Reference Number STH0000847
Photographer Unknown
Town or Village South Shields
Date
Original Format Black and white photograph
Period The 1930s
Copyright South Tyneside Libraries
Further Information Trow Rocks Quarry is now grassed over.  On the hill in the background
is the site of the 'disappearing gun'.  This was a cannon that came
out of the ground, fired a round and then disappeared again below ground
level.  It was a prototype that was never fired in wartime.