Jarrow, Valley View Primary School, air raid shelters

HER Number

11734

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Jarrow, Valley View Primary School, air raid shelters

Place

Jarrow

Map Sheet

NZ36SW

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Civil Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Air Raid Shelter

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Cropmark

Description

Several WW2 air raid shelters seen as earthworks on air photographs from 1946. They served a large school. The shelters have since been dismantled. A faint trace of where they stood can be seen on photographs from the 1980s.

Easting

432810

Northing

563610

Grid Reference

NZ432810563610

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1403223; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/125 5159 04-APR-1946