Devon Crescent, Tyrespot

HER Number

13375

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Devon Crescent, Tyrespot

Place

Birtley

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Shop

Site Type: Specific

Shop

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

First World War 1914 to 1918

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

427040

Northing

556590

Grid Reference

NZ427040556590

Sources

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