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Other Quarries in the area.
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Hartland's Quarry, Ruiton.

1884 trade advert

Henry Hartland lived at 8 Hermit Street in the Census records for 1861-1891, in the 1861 Census his address is given as the 'Three Furnaces Inn', Hermit Street, Upper Gornal.
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Harper's Quarry, Upper Gornal.
1944 advertisement:-
Garden Stone supplied, £3 per two tons.C.O.D.
—Joseph Harper, Upper Gornal Quarries.
Harper's quarry was located on the western slopes of Vale Street, towards the Ellowes Hall coach road. Quarrying ended some time in the 1960s.
The entire quarry has now been infilled and built over with modern housing along a new street 'Old Quarry Drive'.
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William Mason.
The 1911 Census indicates that William R. Mason was a Sand Merchant with own quarry in Ruiton Street.
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1842, Wolverhampton Chronicle, 06 July.
SALE AT GORNAL AND RUITON STONE YARDS, SEDGLEY, STAFFORDSHIRE.
To Stone Masons, Builders, Road Surveyors, contractors to Canals, Ironmasters, and others.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
BY MESSRS. DANKS AND RHODES,
On Tuesday next, the 12 day of July, 1842.
All the extensive Stock of worked and unworked  GORNAL and RUITON STONE, as per catalogue.
Also will be sold at the same time, an immensely powerful IRON HORSE-WIND, with several hundred yards of strong Chain, Two Winches with Pulleys, Blocks, Rollers, Wood Frames, &c. fitted up with oak frame in a superior manner Iron Bars, Smiths' Bellows, Anvils, Wheelbarrows, Iron Tram Waggons with double set of wheels, Two Memel Baulks, lot of Red Deal Planks, Wood Rollers, &c. belonging to Mr. William Fereday, of Upper Gornal, in the parish of Sedgley and county of Staffordshire, and sold soley in consequence of the proprietor declining the stone business.
The sale will commence in the Ruiton stone yard precisely at ten o'clock in the morning.
Pigots Directory of 1835 list the following quarry owners of Upper Gornal.
William Turton Fereday.
Thomas Rollason.
Joseph Saunders & Son.
Richard Smith.
John Tompson.
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Samuel Saunders.
Samuel Saunders, Stone Quarry owner, Upper Gornal. [Melville's Directory of 1851]
In Robson's 1839 directory he is listed as a Quarry Master, Ruiton.
The location of the quarry is unknown at this time.
Mr. Saunders died around 1860, described as quarry master of Gornal, his children were benefactors; Thomas Saunders, William Saunders, Hannah, wife of Edwin Wolverson, Mary, wife of Thomas Dewes, and Rachael, wife of William Addenbrooke;
It is not known if any of his sons carried on the quarry workingss.
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1844: Wolverhampton Chronical, July.
VALUABLE STONE QUARRY and LAND,
situate at Ruiton, in the parish of Sedgley, consisting of upwards of half an acre of very superior GORNALL STONE, together with about three quarters of an acre of desiable LAND; also a large quantity of STONE, now raised, and suitable for building purposes,
WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION
BY MR. T.P. STOKES
On Thursday, the 8th day of August, 1844, at the house of Mr. Henry Williams, the Crown Inn, Ruiton. For further particulars apply to the AUCTIONEER, or to Mr. HENRY JOHNSON, land and mine surveyor, both at Dudley.
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