Heworth, barrage balloon

HER Number:
11659

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth, barrage balloon

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Barrage Balloon Site

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Levelled Earthwork

Description:
Barrage balloon site seen on aerial photographs. Two concentric rings of posts for mooring the balloons, at western end of playing fields at Tyne View Gardens. The ring of posts was approximately 23m in diameter. Three possible buildings, two are around 12m in length and are lying parallel to each other. Another much smaller building. Might have been levelled or may lie underneath shrubs and bushes.

Easting:
2882

Northing:
6250

Grid Reference:
NZ28826250

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1409296; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/35 5235 16-MAY-1948