EAW006041 ENGLAND (1947). Frenchman's Point Battery, Horsley Hill, 1947

Name Rock

Target Rock

PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/23): e21696

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015125

Lookout Post

2ndWW Battery Observation Post.

Central one of 3 x 7.5 inch counter bomardment guns installed during the period from November 1941 and July 1942. The earlier, visible filled in, gun positions had held a 9.2 inch Breech-loading Mk. X and two 6 inch Breech-loading Mk. VII guns which were installed by March 1905. These were later replaced in 1940 with 2 x 6 inch Naval guns. By 1941 these had been removed to Park Battery.

Horsley Hill Farm

St Lawrence Mission Church (Anglican) in the Parish of St Peter, Harton erected in 1939 and consecrated two years later. The building had previously served as the chapel of Bede College, Durham, before being moved. It subsequently became simply St Lawrence Church, Harton and, following rebuilding, became the Parish Church of St Lawrence the Martyr, Horsley Hill.

Watson Avenue

Marsden Cottage Halt which claimed to be the smallest railway station in the world, having only one platform, the length of a single carriage. The station closed in 1954. The path to the left across the Coast Road towards the coast led to Marsden Cottage (also known as Salmon's Hall) itself, a small hamlet clustered around the main house), which was demolished in the 1930s.

Dorset Avenue under construction

Harton Downhill Farm

6 Coquet Avenue

Coastguard lookout post

This site would become Ridley Grove circa 1955.

The lake I presume. Later Lakeside and Lake Avenue.

Chirton Avenue?

Frenchman's Way

Norham Ave

Cheviot Road

Harton Rise

Harton House Rd

Warkworth ave

Freemantle Rd

Carden Ave

Forber Ave

Watson Ave

Lisle Road

Summerhill Road

Bywell Ave

Belsay Ave

Marsden Road

Barbour Avenue

Old Dock Gate

School Approach

The High Road

Centenary Avenue

Prince Edward Road

Marsden Lane

Aged Miner's Homes(Marsden Road)

The Horsley Hill Hotel

Horsley Hill Square

Frenchman's Point Coast Artillery Battery.

section post ?

Observation Post or Pill box?

type 23 pillbox

Falstone Ave (Part Built)Moved there in spring '48

The Palladium Cinema

Harton Infant & Junior School

'The Nook' (Junction of Prince Edward Rd & Sunderland Rd)

'The Nook' (Junction of Prince Edward Rd & Sunderland Rd)

South Shields Boys Grammar School

St Gregory's Infant & Junior School

Felton Avenue

A183 coast road: south (left) towards Sunderland, north (right) towards South Shields.