The Broadway, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne A
The Broadway, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne A
HER Number
1919
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
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
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Second World War 1939 to 1945
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
436110
Northing
570240
Grid Reference
NZ436110570240
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
Aerial Photograph, County Borough of Tynemouth's Surveyor's Office, 1956, PLA 5/1/129, 6 April 1956 -North Shields Library Local Studies