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Encyclopedia > Blakelaw

Blakelaw is located in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne. This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ...


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Blakelaw and North Fenham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (102 words)
Blakelaw and North Fenham is a suburb and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Newcastle in Tyne and Wear, England.
It is north-west of the city centre, and is entirely surrounded on all sides by the unparished area of Newcastle.
It covers the areas of Blakelaw and North Fenham, including Cowgate.
Subterranea Britannica: Research Study Group: Sites: Blakelaw - 13 Group Fighter Command Filter Room and Newcastle ... (760 words)
The exact role of the Blakelaw bunker at this time is in some doubt; there were proposals to establish a joint USAAF/RAF command centre or even to convert the site into a Maintenance Unit but neither of these appear to have come to anything.
The newly formed Newcastle District Council officially designated it as their war HQ but nothing was done to it due to the Council's extreme left wing policy on Civil Defence.
In 1986 Tyne and Wear County was abolished and the newly formed Tyne and Wear Fire and Civil Defence Authority wanted to turn Blakelaw into a modern emergency centre, a scheme that was halted by the end of the cold war in 1991.
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