Jarrow, Palmer's Shipyard, barrage balloon site

HER Number:
11771

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Palmer's Shipyard, barrage balloon site

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

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:
A barrage balloon site mapped from air photographs of 1946. The mooring circle was around 50m in diameter. There were two associated buildings just to the south-east of the outer ring of posts.

Easting:
3276

Northing:
6565

Grid Reference:
NZ32766565

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405626; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/125 5153 04-APR-1946