Benwell, Westgate Community College, air raid shelters

HER Number:
11676

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benwell, Westgate Community College, air raid shelters

Place:
Benwell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Civil Defence Building

Site Type: Specific:
Air Raid Shelter

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Levelled Earthwork

Description:
Two air raid shelters of WW2 in Rutherford School's playing fields. Lay in a north-south arrangement and surrounded by banks on all four sides. The shelters each measure 14m x 7m. Now levelled. Lie within a Scheduled section of Hadrian's Wall ditch (SAM 28/10).

Easting:
2196

Northing:
6473

Grid Reference:
NZ21966473

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432158; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/147 5498 15-APR-1946