Dunston Road, barrage balloon site
Dunston Road, barrage balloon site
HER Number
11680
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Dunston Road, barrage balloon site
Place
Dunston
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Anti Aircraft Defence Site
Site Type: Specific
Barrage Balloon Site
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
20th Century 1901 to 2000
Form of Evidence
Destroyed Monument
Description
Seen on air photographs. Formed by concentric circles of posts used for mooring balloons. Approximately 22m in diameter. Associated buildings - two buildings 18m to the east, and another 24m to the west-south-west. Two vertical war-time photographs show a balloon drifting near the mooring site; one military oblique photograph shows a balloon on the ground moored on the site. Now destroyed by development.
Easting
422490
Northing
562000
Grid Reference
NZ422490562000
Sources
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432159; Aerial Photograph RAF FNO/129 1088-1089 01-SEP-1942, NMR NZ 22 62/3 (MSO 31371/O-16746) 23-AUG-1943