Whitley Bay, Golf Course, Pillboxes

HER Number:
1790

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Whitley Bay, Golf Course, Pillboxes

Place:
Whitley Bay

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Blockhouse

Site Type: Specific:
Pillbox

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Pair of concrete pillboxes of Second World War origin on the golf course, buried at the end of a railway embankment. One is in bad condition, the other in fair condition. Constructed 1940-1.

Easting:
341

Northing:
745

Grid Reference:
NZ341745

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1790 >> A. Rudd, 1989, Existing Sites of Pillboxes in Tyne and Wear