Coast Road, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne T

Coast Road, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne T

HER Number
5508
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Coast Road, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne T
Place
Whitley Bay
Map Sheet
NZ37SW
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Anti Aircraft Defence Site
Site Type: Specific
Anti Aircraft Battery
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Second World War 1939 to 1945
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Site of heavy anti aircraft battery - Tyne T
Easting
434400
Northing
574700
Grid Reference
NZ434400574700
Sources
<< HER 5508 >> Alan Rudd, 1986, List of 20th century defence sites on Tyneside; Recorder- A. Rudd. (t was unarmed in 1942, but was armed with four 3.7-inch guns in November 1945; Vertical aerial photograph reference number RAF 58/B/40 5125 18-MAY-1948; Migrated Defence of Britain Project database record originally compiled from various sources; C S Dobinson 1996 Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery : England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46, Page 480