Dunston, Dunston Road, barrage balloon site

HER Number:
11680

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Dunston, Dunston Road, barrage balloon site

Place:
Dunston

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:
Seen on air photographs. Formed by concentric circles of posts used for mooring balloons. Approximately 22m in diameter. Associated buildings - two buildings 18m to the east, and another 24m to the west-south-west. Two vertical war-time photographs show a balloon drifting near the mooring site; one military oblique photograph shows a balloon on the ground moored on the site. Now destroyed by development.

Easting:
2249

Northing:
6200

Grid Reference:
NZ22496200

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432159; Aerial Photograph RAF FNO/129 1088-1089 01-SEP-1942, NMR NZ 22 62/3 (MSO 31371/O-16746) 23-AUG-1943