Bents Recreation Ground, barrage balloon site

HER Number

11720

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Bents Recreation Ground, barrage balloon site

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

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

A barrage balloon site of WW2 seen on air photographs. A concentric, circular arrangement of concrete mooring posts.

Easting

437720

Northing

566910

Grid Reference

NZ437720566910

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1400940; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/147 5154 15-APR-1946