In 1881, the land belonged to Lord Tankerville, who employed a man called Thomas Bowey to manage the rediscovered oyster beds. Financial problems were on the horizon; the Tankerville family fell from grace and once again the oysters faded away.

In 1953, John Sutherland started farming at Ross, between Bamburgh and Holy Island, where the land stretches up to the shore across to the Island. He began farming oysters in 1989, after he noticed oyster shells at a low tide' (Steve Ramplin 2002, article in the Northumbria Magazine)