Scotswood, Whitehouse Road, barrage balloon site

HER Number:
11678

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Scotswood, Whitehouse Road, barrage balloon site

Place:
Scotswood

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Barrage Balloon Site

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
Barrage balloon of WW2 seen on air photographs. Close to the River Tyne at South Benwell. A circular concentric arrangement of posts, 21m in diameter, for the mooring of balloons. Destroyed by development.

Easting:
2137

Northing:
6359

Grid Reference:
NZ21376359

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432148; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/147 5280 15-APR-1946