Palmer's Shipyard, barrage balloon site

HER Number

11771

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

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

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

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

432760

Northing

565650

Grid Reference

NZ432760565650

Sources

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