Tyne and Wear HER(5881): Washington, Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post - Details
5881
Sunderland
Washington, Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post
Washington
NZ35NW
Defence
Royal Observer Corps Site
Modern
C20
Documentary Evidence
Post 2 in cluster E of 30 Group moved here in or before April 1943 from a site nearer to Washington village (HER 5880). Around May 1949 the post was resited at Hastings Hill (HER 5882). This was a visual observation post to track aircraft movements. Early Observer Corps Posts had a simple instrument for plotting the plan position of the aircraft. Throughout WW2 the ROC had a more sophisticated "Post Instrument" which also recorded the height of the aircraft. WW2 posts were frequently simply sand bagged emplacements, or more sophisticated examples were of domestic brick construction, some two-storey, with an open observation post and a crew room. Some had latrines.
311
584
NZ311584
<< HER 5881 >> C.S. Dobinson, 2000, Twentieth Century Fortifications in England, The Cold War, Vol XI, 2, p 212
Council For British Archaeology, 1995, Twentieth Century, Defences in Britain - An Introductory Guide Handbook of The Defence of Britain Project, p 32; D. Wood, 1992, Attack Warning Red; http://subbrit.org.uk