Coast Road, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne T

HER Number:
5508

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Coast Road, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne T

Place:
Whitley Bay

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Anti Aircraft Battery

General Period:
20TH CENTURY

Specific Period:
Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Site of heavy anti aircraft battery - Tyne T

Easting:
434400

Northing:
574700

Grid Reference:
NZ434400574700

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5508 >> Alan Rudd, 1986, List of 20th century defence sites on Tyneside; Recorder- A. Rudd. (t was unarmed in 1942, but was armed with four 3.7-inch guns in November 1945; 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