Whitehouse Road, barrage balloon site

HER Number

11678

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Whitehouse Road, barrage balloon site

Place

Scotswood

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Barrage Balloon Site

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

Barrage balloon of WW2 seen on air photographs. Close to the River Tyne at South Benwell. A circular concentric arrangement of posts, 21m in diameter, for the mooring of balloons. Destroyed by development.

Easting

421370

Northing

563590

Grid Reference

NZ421370563590

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432148; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/147 5280 15-APR-1946