Albert Edward Dock, barrage balloon site

HER Number

11767

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Albert Edward Dock, barrage balloon site

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

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 mapped from air photographs of 1942. The mooring circle was 63m in diameter. A balloon is visible on the ground on one wartime photograph. Two associated buildings lie side by side just outside the mooring circle.

Easting

434810

Northing

566890

Grid Reference

NZ434810566890

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405917; Aerial Photograph RAF FNO/98 1096 16-AUG-1942