Whitley Bay, searchlight batteries

HER Number

12556

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Whitley Bay, searchlight batteries

Place

Whitley Bay

Map Sheet

NZ37SW

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Searchlight Battery

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

20th Century 1901 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Two searchlight batteries recorded by the Defence of Britain project, are visible as structures and earthworks on air photographs. No surface features are visible on the latest 1988 Ordnance Survey vertical photography. Now a caravan park.

Easting

434550

Northing

574760

Grid Reference

NZ434550574760

Sources

Archaeological Research Services Ltd, 2009, North East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment; NMR Monument Number 1414464; Vertical aerial photograph reference number RAF 58/B/40 5125 18-MAY-1948; Migrated Defence of Britain Project database record originally compiled from various sources; C S Dobinson 1996 Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery : England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46, page 480