Scanned image view of gun battery engine house and magazine from the East. Visible are ventilators and steel framed windows.
SC 537400
Description Scanned image view of gun battery engine house and magazine from the East. Visible are ventilators and steel framed windows.
Date 19/5/1998
Catalogue Number SC 537400
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 34614 CN
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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