Felling, air raid shelters

HER Number

11661

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Felling, air raid shelters

Place

Felling

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Civil Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Air Raid Shelter

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

20th Century 1901 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Levelled Earthwork

Description

A group of nine air raid shelters seen as earthworks on air photographs. The semi-sunken shelters lay in the grounds of a school and were arranged in rows opposite one another. The shelters were approximately 16m x 9m in size.

Easting

427670

Northing

561420

Grid Reference

NZ427670561420

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1409164; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/94 5284 29-MAR-1946; Tyne and Wear Museums, 2013, Stephenson Terrace, Gateshead, Geophysical Survey