Edinburgh, Cramond Island, Cramond Battery, coast battery. View of gun battery engine house and magazine from the East. Visible are ventilators and steel framed windows.
D 34614 CN
Description Edinburgh, Cramond Island, Cramond Battery, coast battery. View of gun battery engine house and magazine from the East. Visible are ventilators and steel framed windows.
Date 19/5/1998
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 34614 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 537400
Scope and Content Cramond Battery, Cramond Island, Cramond Cramond Island, part of the old parish of Cramond, is a small uninhabited island lying in the Firth of Forth just north of the mouth of the River Almond at Cramond Village. The island is accessible by a causeway at low tide. This gun-battery engine-house and magazine were part of the island's World War II defence system designed to protect shipping lanes in the Firth of Forth. In the distance, at a narrow part of the Firth of Forth, are the two great Forth bridges. Cramond Island was used for a time as grazing ground for Shetland and other rare breeds of sheep by a group of pioneering agriculturists, including Lord Hopetoun and Lord Rosebery. The flocks now graze in the grounds of Hopetoun House. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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