Birtley, Devon Crescent, Tyrespot

HER Number:
13375

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Birtley, Devon Crescent, Tyrespot

Place:
Birtley

Map Sheet:
NZ25NE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
This, and the adjacent Lamesley Road Garage are the only surviving buildings of Elisabethville, the temporary Belgian village in the First World War. One was the food-store, the other the butcher's shop.

Easting:
2704

Northing:
5659

Grid Reference:
NZ27045659

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
McMurtie & Schlesinger, 1987, The Birtley Belgians (5th edition 2003); John G. Bygate, 2006, Arms & the Heroes