Market Lane, barrage balloon site

HER Number

11690

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Market Lane, barrage balloon site

Place

Whickham

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

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

Levelled Earthwork

Description

A barrage balloon site of WW2 seen on air photographs. Lies between Garden House Cemetery and Duckpool Lane. A concentric, circular arrangement of mooring posts, approximately 22m in diameter. Site now levelled.

Easting

421390

Northing

561790

Grid Reference

NZ421390561790

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432144; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/35 5197 16-MAY-1948