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

Fortification

Site Type: Specific

Pillbox

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

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

434100

Northing

574500

Grid Reference

NZ434100574500

Sources

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