Windy Nook, Albion Street, air raid shelters

HER Number

11660

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Windy Nook, Albion Street, air raid shelters

Place

Windy Nook

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Civil Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Air Raid Shelter

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

20th Century 1901 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

Air raid shelters seen as earthworks on aerial photographs. Semi-sunken in form. They lie south-east of the schools south of Albion Road and north of Windy Nook Quarries. At least two shelters are visible. They are approximately 25m long. Probably now destroyed.

Easting

427850

Northing

560790

Grid Reference

NZ427850560790

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1409362; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/94 5284 29-MAR-1946