EAW002147 ENGLAND (1946). Holiday-makers on Whitburn Sands, Seaburn, 1946

WW2 Concrete bunker complex. Another much lower structure was emplaced on this hedgerow overlooking the bay.

Economic Bus Depot

The Nissen hut located inside this blast wall is likely some kind of Ordnance store /magazine associated with the Z Rocket Projectile Battery.

Location of the admin/accommodation buildings associated with the " Site of Second World War U2P rocket projector battery ZYP C at Whitburn Sands. It was armed with 63 twin-barrelled projectors and GL Mark II radar. Visible as Second World War structures and earthworks on air photographs are a military camp, military buildings, pillboxes, an ordnance store, air raid shelters, an Anderson shelter, trenches and barbed wire obstructions. " Defence of Britain Project.

Possible location of Lizard Lane anti aircraft battery complex. List 1419998

Mystery Structure

WW2 Structure

WW2 Gun Battery

Are these the Lime Kilns that are at Marsden ?

Seaburn Camp Bus Terminus

'Shop at BINNS' advert on tram

Cornthwaite Park, Whitburn

Whitburn School. Later to become Whitburn Comp.

Hastings' post office, demolished by Vaux to extend the Seaburn Hotel.

Now the Marriott Hotel, then the Seaburn Hotel which is much extended and altered.

souter lighthouse

WWII Anti Tank Gun Emplacement.

the seaburn hall

the bay hotel

seaburn camp lines of old army huts I think they were used by schools for holidays.no sign of the football pitches.

Here you can see what remains of Whitburn Gun Battery which was part of the World War Two coastal defences for the mouth of the River Wear.

The end of a Sunderland tram route, with turning loop (that goes on the wrong side of the road in the junction - what chaos it would cause today) a couple sidings and a tram waiting to head south back to Sunderland.

Colliery