South Pier, tank traps

HER Number

11715

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

South Pier, tank traps

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Defence Obstruction

Site Type: Specific

Tank Trap

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

Two lines of Second World War tank traps seen on vertical air photographs from 1948. The anti-tank cubes block off the end of the south pier and part of the adjacent beach. The blocks have since been removed.

Easting

437330

Northing

567790

Grid Reference

NZ437330567790

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1400063; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/32 5431 17-MAY-1948