Dunston Road, barrage balloon site
Dunston Road, barrage balloon site
HER Number
              11680
          District
              Gateshead
          Site Name
              Dunston Road, barrage balloon site
          Place
              Dunston
          Map Sheet
              NZ26SW
          Class
              Defence
          Site Type: Broad
              Anti Aircraft Defence Site
          Site Type: Specific
              Barrage Balloon Site
          General Period
              20TH CENTURY
          Specific Period
              20th Century 1901 to 2000
          Form of Evidence
              Destroyed Monument
          Description
              Seen on air photographs. Formed by concentric circles of posts used for mooring balloons. Approximately 22m in diameter. Associated buildings - two buildings 18m to the east, and another 24m to the west-south-west. Two vertical war-time photographs show a balloon drifting near the mooring site; one military oblique photograph shows a balloon on the ground moored on the site. Now destroyed by development.
          Easting
              422490
          Northing
              562000
          Grid Reference
              NZ422490562000
    Sources
              English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432159; Aerial Photograph RAF FNO/129 1088-1089 01-SEP-1942, NMR NZ 22 62/3 (MSO 31371/O-16746) 23-AUG-1943