The Gosforth AAOR is currently used by the Northumberland County Record Office and is open three days a week. The building is of the standard AAOR design with one floor below ground.
The Gosforth AAOR is currently used by the Northumberland County Record Office and is open three days a week. The building is of the standard AAOR design with one floor below ground.
Built in 1951 as an anti-aircraft command post replacing Low Gosforth House, the WWII operations room. It continued as the command centre for Lizard Farm Heavy Artillery anti-aircraft battery at Whitburn, near South Shields, into the 1950s. In 1962 the bunker was converted to be used as the Northumberland County Archives before moving to The Kyllins, Morpeth and then its present location at Woodhorn Museum near Ashington.
The bunker was demolished in 2014 and is now the site of a care home.
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