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12556


N Tyneside


Whitley Bay, searchlight batteries


Whitley Bay


NZ37SW


Defence


Battery


Searchlight Battery


Modern


C20


Structure


Two searchlight batteries recorded by the Defence of Britain project, are visible as structures and earthworks on air photographs. No surface features are visible on the latest 1988 Ordnance Survey vertical photography. Now a caravan park.


3455


7476


NZ34557476



Archaeological Research Services Ltd, 2009, North East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment; NMR Monument Number 1414464; Vertical aerial photograph reference number RAF 58/B/40 5125 18-MAY-1948; Migrated Defence of Britain Project database record originally compiled from various sources; C S Dobinson 1996 Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery : England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46, page 480

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