Melton Park, Anti Aircraft Operations Room
Melton Park, Anti Aircraft Operations Room
HER Number
5571
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Melton Park, Anti Aircraft Operations Room
Place
Gosforth
Map Sheet
NZ27SW
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Anti Aircraft Defence Site
Site Type: Specific
Anti Aircraft Operations Room
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
This was the Anti Aircraft Control Centre during WW2. In 1962 it became the Northumberland Records Office until 2007. The wartime control centre had been in the adjacent large house (HER 1873) which has now gone. Melton Park was still the command centre for the HAA Battery at Lizard Farm, Whitburn in 1952, the only battery in the area to be maintained in the Cold War period. Now demolished.
Easting
424500
Northing
570420
Grid Reference
NZ424500570420
Sources
<< HER 5571 >> Alan Rudd, 1986, List of 20th century defence sites on Tyneside
J. Bailie, 1801, An Impartial History of … Newcastle upon Tyne; The Archaeological Practice Ltd. 2009, Former Northumberland Record Office, Melton Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Assessment and Historic Buildings Recording; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2010, Northumberland Record Office Site, Melton Park, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne
J. Bailie, 1801, An Impartial History of … Newcastle upon Tyne; The Archaeological Practice Ltd. 2009, Former Northumberland Record Office, Melton Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Assessment and Historic Buildings Recording; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2010, Northumberland Record Office Site, Melton Park, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne