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Latitude: 55.0348 / 55°2'5"N
Longitude: -1.4334 / 1°26'0"W
OS Eastings: 436312
OS Northings: 571288
OS Grid: NZ363712
Mapcode National: GBR LBF6.GZ
Mapcode Global: WHD4K.YQL3
Plus Code: 9C7W2HM8+WJ
Entry Name: Rocket Garage
Listing Date: 19 February 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1025344
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303342
ID on this website: 101025344
Location: Cullercoats, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE30
County: North Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Cullercoats
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tynemouth
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Cullercoats St George
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
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TYNEMOUTH JOHN STREET (west side)
NZ 37 SE
Cullercoats
5/97
Rocket garage
G.V. II
Life brigade apparatus house, now garage. Dated 1867 above door. For Cullercoats
Life Brigade. Painted snecked stone with ashlar dressings and quoins; graduated
slate roof with one tall end brick chimney. One storey, one x 3 bays. Gable end
to street. Double boarded door in elliptical-headed keyed arch and alternate-block
jambs. Inscribed stone scroll above: LIFE BRIGADE HOUSE/1867. Small chamfered
pointed-arched niche above. Right return has 2 windows and one blind bay.
Bargeboards with finials. Historical note: this was the second Life Brigade in the
country, formed immediately after that at Tynemouth of 1864. These brigades
pioneered the technique of saving shipwreck victims by rocket-firing lifelines
to wrecked vessels.
Listing NGR: NZ3631271288
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