Looking for A Battery

According to Canmore the strange marks on Google satellite view, not far from home, are WWII battery and gun emplacements. Who'd have thought it? Are they still there? It would appear that they are but this had to be confirmed.

Well, that's just the sort of challenge the Flum household likes. As always, the route was carefully planned to obtain the best view and access, starting from home via Mortonhall, turning north at Stanedykehead, past the Retired Greyhound kennels and eventually to the south of the area in question.

That's where things didn't work out. The buildings are still there, we could see some, but as we were much lower down it wasn't a definitive view. And we couldn't get any nearer because they are now in a paddock for horses from nearby Tower Farm Riding Stables. The horses took a great interest in the two straggly humans pointing a camera at them their 'stables', came to say hello and demanded to be blipped because the gun emplacements stables, with their hay feeders spaced between the brickwork and surrounded by mud, didn't look as interesting.

We continued our walk past C16 Liberton House to Alnwickhill Road, back along Stanedykehead to the Stable bar for lunch, said hello to the Highland cows , had a wander round the garden centre, then hoofed along the road for a bus the rest of the way home.

Not bad for a dull, dreich and chilly day.