Manuscripts
MS 810/5 Records of Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Lothian Region - A survey of 20th Century Defences in the Lothian region. A survey by John Guy.
1997
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34597 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, The Knoll battery and anti-shipping barrier. General view of battery and N end terminal of anti-shippuing barrier from South East.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34598 CN Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, The Knoll battery and anti-shipping barrier. General view of battery and N end terminal of anti-shippuing barrier from South East.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34601 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, The Knoll battery and terminal of anti-shipping barrier. View of battery gun emplacement, observation platform and shipping barrier terminal from South West.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34602 CN Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, The Knoll battery and terminal of anti-shipping barrier. View of battery gun emplacement, observation platform and shipping barrier terminal from South West.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34591 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, anti-shipping barrier. View of barrier from North.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34592 CN Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, anti-shipping barrier. View of barrier from North.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34593 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, anti-shipping barrier. Detail of concrete plinths with eyelets for cable at North end of barrier. Also visible are the slots for concrete boards between the plinths.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34594 CN Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, anti-shipping barrier. Detail of concrete plinths with eyelets for cable at North end of barrier. Also visible are the slots for concrete boards between the plinths.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34595 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, The Knoll battery and anti-shipping barrier. View of anti-shipping barrier from the North end showing part of The Knoll battery constructed to defend the tidal area between Cramond and the Island.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 34596 CN Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Edinburgh, Cramond Island, The Knoll battery and anti-shipping barrier. View of anti-shipping barrier from the North end showing part of The Knoll battery constructed to defend the tidal area between Cramond and the Island.
19/5/1998
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On-line Digital Images
SC 537398 Edinburgh, Cramond Island, anti-shipping barrier. View of barrier from North.
19/5/1998
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
D 50457 View NW of the anti-shipping barrier running from Cramond to Cramond Island, showing the partially completed S end of the barrier. A steam crane and pile driving rig are visible at the N end of the newly constructed section. One pillar still has the shuttering in situ.
c. 1940
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
E 23599 View NE of a Ruston & Hornsby narrow guage diesel locomotive used in the construction of the anti-shipping barrier between Cramond and Cramond Island. The locomotive is situated on the S end of the partly constructed barrier.
c. 1940
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
E 33792 View NW of the anti-shipping barrier running from Cramond to Cramond Island, showing the partially completed S end of the barrier. A pile driving rig is visible at the N end of the newly constructed section. Construction has reached approximately half way across the channel.
c. 1941
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
E 35189 View NE of part the anti-shipping barrier running from Cramond to Cramond Island, showing a diesel engine pump and part of the founds for the barrier. Part of an earlier boom across the Firth of Forth is visible in the background
c. 1940
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
E 35238 View NW of a pile driving rig used in the construction of the anti-shipping barrier between Cramond and Cramond Island. The photograph shows the rig running on broad guage track laid on the sand at low tide. The hammer is driving concrete piles ahead of the construction of the barrier. Cramond Island is visible in the background.
c. 1940
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
E 35239 View N showing construction work on the S part of the anti-shipping barrier between Cramond and Cramond Island. The photograph shows the founds with steel formers protruding and in the background a steam crane running on broad guage track along with the pile driving rig.
c. 1940
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
E 35266 View NE showing construction work on the S part of the anti-shipping barrier between Cramond and Cramond Island. The photograph shows the completed pillars and in the background a steam crane running on broad guage track next to a pile driving rig. In the background, further to the E and running across the channel, is an ealier temporary barrier.
c. 1940
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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
E 35268 A detail of the pile driving rig used in the construction work on the S part of the anti-shipping barrier between Cramond and Cramond Island.
c. 1940
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On-line Digital Images
SC 881628 Scanned image of view NE of a Ruston & Hornsby narrow guage diesel locomotive used in the construction of the anti-shipping barrier between Cramond and Cramond Island. The locomotive is situated on the S end of the partly constructed barrier.
c. 1940
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On-line Digital Images
SC 881630 Scanned image of view NW of the anti-shipping barrier running from Cramond to Cramond Island, showing the partially completed S end of the barrier. A pile driving rig is visible at the N end of the newly constructed section. Construction has reached approximately half way across the channel.
c. 1941
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On-line Digital Images
SC 881631 Scanned image of view NE of part the anti-shipping barrier running from Cramond to Cramond Island, showing a diesel engine pump and part of the founds for the barrier. Part of an earlier boom across the Firth of Forth is visible in the background
c. 1940
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On-line Digital Images
SC 881632 Scanned image of view NW of a pile driving rig used in the construction of the anti-shipping barrier between Cramond and Cramond Island. The photograph shows the rig running on broad guage track laid on the sand at low tide. The hammer is driving concrete piles ahead of the construction of the barrier. Cramond Island is visible in the background.
c. 1940
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