Dockwray Square, barrage balloon site

HER Number

11728

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Dockwray Square, barrage balloon site

Place

North 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

436000

Northing

568400

Grid Reference

NZ436000568400

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1400970; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/147 5381 15-APR-1946