Windy Nook, Albion Street, air raid shelters

HER Number:
11660

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Windy Nook, Albion Street, air raid shelters

Place:
Windy Nook

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Civil Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Air Raid Shelter

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
Air raid shelters seen as earthworks on aerial photographs. Semi-sunken in form. They lie south-east of the schools south of Albion Road and north of Windy Nook Quarries. At least two shelters are visible. They are approximately 25m long. Probably now destroyed.

Easting:
2785

Northing:
6079

Grid Reference:
NZ27856079

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1409362; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/94 5284 29-MAR-1946