Tyne and Wear HER(5508): Whitley Bay, Coast Road, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne T - Details
5508
N Tyneside
Whitley Bay, Coast Road, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne T
Whitley Bay
NZ37SW
Defence
Battery
Anti Aircraft Battery
Modern
C20
Demolished Building
Site of heavy anti aircraft battery - Tyne T
344
747
NZ344747
<< 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