Archive 03: Luftwaffe Pilot's View
We inspected the town's defences daily looking for improvements and making sure the crews knew their job. Best were the barrage balloons. We spent hours at Dockwray Square, staring through the railings; the balloon was like a great silver elephant, whose sides crinkled with every breeze.
Robert Westall: Children of the Blitz: p28
Aerial Photograph by Roland Park c.1943 Reference: North Tyneside Libraries This photograph appears by kind permission of the family of the late Margery Craig, daughter of Roland Park. This photo gives a pilot's eye view of North Shields. What problems might a bomber crew have finding targets?
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Barrage Balloon next to Dockwray Square features heavily
in Westall's 'The Machine Gunners'. The Railway Line made an obvious navigational aid and target. Empty spaces in the built up areas of housing usually denotes areas of bomb damage and clearance. |
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Barrage Balloons 
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cleared site of Wilkinson's Shelter 
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Low Lighthouse & High Lighthouse
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Dockwray Square 
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