Archaeology Notes
Event ID 826503
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT54NW 184 5217 4816 and 5224 4811
Two large warehouses are situated about 100m NW of the site of Lauder railway station *(NT54NW 143). Now in use for agricultural purposes, they were constructed as foodstores by the Ministry of Defence during 1939-40. Intended as a food warehouse and distribution depot with a total capacity of 6,000 tons. Located in Lauder they were built away from areas that were threatened by aerial bombing. The main storage was for flour which was brought in by rail and then distributed by road.
The warehouse are visible on a wartime oblique aerial photograph (No.1 CAM, AF 650, flown 7 May 1942) along with several ancillary buildings. The depot closed in the late 1950s and since that date they have been used for agricultural purposes, notably as 'poultry houses' (OS 1:10560 scale map (1968).
A M Hadjucki and A Simpson 1996 and information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2002.