Tynemouth, The Broadway, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne A

HER Number:
1919

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, The Broadway, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne A

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ37SE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Anti Aircraft Battery

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Site of a former 4.5 inch heavy anti-aircraft battery, showing four concrete gun positions with ammunitions stores. A command post was situated at the rear and close by to the right was a radar installation which was originally surrounded by an octagonal fenced enclosure. This is now destroyed and has been built over.

Easting:
3611

Northing:
7024

Grid Reference:
NZ36117024

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1919 >> N. Stevenson, 1998, A Possible Neolithic Henge Monument at Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear Northern Archaeology, vol 15/16, 1998, p 39-43 Aerial Photograph, County Borough of Tynemouth's Surveyor's Office, 1956, PLA 5/1/129, 6 April 1956 -North Shields Library Local Studies