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Behind Tesco's recycling facilities Redford Barracks is getting a big renovation. Built just before the Great War it houses the regiment charged with guarding Edinburgh Castle. The Scottish Regiments are however facing amalgamation.
©Richard Webb
The clock tower on the former cavalry barracks of the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys). The barracks continue to accommodate troops between tours of duty throughout the year and come alive in August when they house performers in the Edinburgh Military Tattoo which takes place on the Castle Esplanade.
©kim traynor
The western block of the Edwardian barracks with a glimpse of the Pentland Hills on the right. It has long been widely rumoured that the barracks are perishing cold in the winter months, thus giving rise to the apocryphal tale that two sets of barracks were originally designed, one to be built in Scotland and the other in India...only thanks to bureaucratic bungling the blueprints got mixed up. So, somewhere in India local recruits suffocate in sweltering heat while their Scottish counterparts suffer the exact opposite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redford_Barracks
©kim traynor
Dist:0.2km<br/>As far as I know this is not the site of an old railway, so I assume the signal is an import. Patie's Road is on the line of an old road to Kate's Mill and Redhall Mill, and it is assumed that Patie may have been the owner of one of the mills.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>The wall on the left follows the boundary of Merchiston Castle School.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the junction of Colinton Road and Oxgangs Road North. The yellow van is on Colinton Road heading away from Edinburgh
©michael ely
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©kim traynor
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©kim traynor
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©Tom Richardson
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.6km<br/>A small crowd on Wester Craiglockhart Hill gathers to watch the demolition of the tower blocks at Oxgangs ([[285479]]). They were in for a cold wait - the demolition was delayed by an hour, rumour had it due to someone entering one of the to-be-demolished tower blocks.
©Callum Black
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©Tom Richardson
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©Tom Richardson
Dist:0.6km<br/>Taken from Wester Craiglockhart Hill
©Tom Richardson
Dist:0.6km<br/>Opened in 1880 as a hydropathic sanatorium, the building was commandeered by the War Office in 1916 for use as a military psychiatric hospital. In 1920 it was bought by the Catholic Church and turned into a teacher training college, which it remained until the early 1990s. It then became part of the rapidly expanding Napier University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craiglockhart_Hydropathic
©kim traynor

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