Looking at Edinburgh via Google Maps satellite view I see there’s a big bit of fairly empty land where you have Stanedykehead to the south, and Liberton on the north and west. In the middle are a load of wee circular walls with small buildings attached and a couple of bigger buildings. They look as though they are made from concrete.

I’ve tried the Interweb but can’t find anything about them. Does anyone on here know?

Can you isolate on a map kenny?

stables?

Alnwickhill Water treatment works?

oh you mean http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=325842&y=668674&z=110&sv=325842,668674&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=811&ax=325842&ay=668674&lm=0 here?

you mean these?

Google maps
edit: that didn’t work

Here?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Stanedykehead&hl=en&ll=55.909838,-3.175969&spn=0.001079,0.00342&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Stanedykehead,+Edinburgh+EH16+6YE,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=19

Look like stables or pig stys perhaps?

the small ones have octagonal walls. Why not go up n have a look?

Look like former WWII Anti-Aircraft gun emplacements on the link that Geoffj posted.

Gun Enplacements?

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/AABatteryLiberton

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/118887/details/edinburgh+liberton+liberton+kennels+liberton+battery/

Thanks for all the replies guys. I love this forum for that sort of stuff.

It’s definitely the AA battery. The extra wall on one of the buildings must be a blast wall.

Must take a wee wander over on the bike sometime.

Thanks again.

You can see an AA battery on Google? 😯

Did you know some of The wee islands in the forth were mocked up as decoy ships to try and confuse WW2 bombers.

Did you know some of The wee islands in the forth were mocked up as decoy ships to try and confuse WW2 bombers.

As it’s an international forum I feel comfortable mentioning that a similar thing occured outside Wrexham where they set fires up at World’s End near Llandegla. Confuse the German bombers into dropping bombs there instead of Liverpool, hence the bomb craters.
There must be a joke in there somewhere.