Rude not to repost pictures Edinburgh's best kept former Air Raid Precautions building.

Map Centred on Glasgow Showing the proposed locations of the 1960's Carrier Control Points. The Carrier Control Points shown on the map are: 230 Kirkintilloch 231 Milngavie 232 Johnstone 233 East Kilbride Which were split from the old Glasgow 230 Warning Area. Along with standalone neighbouring Carrier Control Points at: 248 Motherwell 253 Greenock Background Map Data: OpenStreetMaps Icons and Placement: David Booth based of documents held in the National Records of Scotland

With the Role out of the national air raid warning system (HANDEL) in the 1960's Glasgow was the First Scottish location to be upgraded.
Glasgow (230) ceased to be a single warning area and was split into 4 new Areas:

230 Kirkintilloch
231 Milngavie
232 Johnstone
233 East Kilbride

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I have not had my morning roll yet so have failed in my role as a poster to pick correctly between roll and role.

This was done as Glasgow was thought to be a Target.
By moving the Carrier Control Point outside of the City, and splitting into 4, it was hoped that more infrastructure would survive to allow subsequent warnings (Such as a second wave of attacks or fallout warnings) to be passed.
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Map Centred on Glasgow Showing the proposed locations of the 1960's Carrier Control Points. The Carrier Control Points shown on the map are: 230 Kirkintilloch 231 Milngavie 232 Johnstone 233 East Kilbride Which were split from the old Glasgow 230 Warning Area. Along with standalone neighbouring Carrier Control Points at: 248 Motherwell 253 Greenock Background Map Data: OpenStreetMaps Icons and Placement: David Booth based of documents held in the National Records of Scotland

With the Role out of the national air raid warning system (HANDEL) in the 1960's Glasgow was the First Scottish location to be upgraded.
Glasgow (230) ceased to be a single warning area and was split into 4 new Areas:

230 Kirkintilloch
231 Milngavie
232 Johnstone
233 East Kilbride

#SirenSaturday

Map of Central Scotland Showing the remaining Police Boxes identified by the Author: There are 3 Groups with appropriate Icons: Edinburgh, Glasgow & Dundee Background Map Data: OpenStreetMaps Icons and Placement: David Booth

Map of the west end of Edinburgh showing the locations of 6 of Edinburgh Police Boxes: Drumsheugh Gardens [exSiren and Call Lamp] Rose Street West End (Princes Street/Hope Street) [exSiren] Charrlotte Street (Princes Street) [Call Lamp] Rutland Square [exSiren] Cambridge Street Background Map Data: OpenStreetMaps Icons and Placement: David Booth

I have been left unattended with QGIS, paint and Notepad.

I think I have now plotted (with appropriate symbols) all the surviving #EdinburghPoliceBox ,Now I need to check if I have photographed them all.
I know there are more to find in private hands.

Up next I might go National #GlasgowPoliceBox

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I think I am going to need to look down the back alley ways for Birds.
At least once a month I end up going for a walk past that cluster of shops and had no idea they were around the back.

A cold war era Siren on top of a now closed Lloyds Bank at the Corner on Manor Street and Beck Hill Road, Bridlington, England. The Siren, which has one face pointing out into the road and the other into the roof, is Complete with Heater Plates.

Someone drew my attention to this in-situ Siren located on top of an old bank in Bridlington, England. There is a good chance this was retained for use as a Flood Siren.

Bridlington would have been Carrier Planning Area 210.
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Facebook caption: "St James Square, 1950s. Demolished in 1960s to make way for the St James Centre. EEN" https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17J1ekZ7vT/ The Edinburgh police box complete with Siren can be seen near the centre of the picture where the street meets the square.

A picture of a lost #EdinburghPoliceBox was posted by @lostedinburgh.bsky.social on their Facebook page (credited EEN).

Police Box 11 'B', St. James' Square, Edinburgh.

This was given the carrier planning number '254/112' in the 1960's.

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A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Facebook caption: "St James Square, 1950s. Demolished in 1960s to make way for the St James Centre. EEN" https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17J1ekZ7vT/ The Edinburgh police box complete with Siren can be seen near the centre of the picture where the street meets the square.

A picture of a lost #EdinburghPoliceBox was posted by @lostedinburgh.bsky.social on their Facebook page (credited EEN).

Police Box 11 'B', St. James' Square, Edinburgh.

This was given the carrier planning number '254/112' in the 1960's.

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Somewhere there is another (Better?) world in which we can step off the Monorail directly on to the completed Princes street second story.

I think there was a box here in the late 40's (but I haven't seen a picture yet which shows the roof in a reasonable resolution).

I think I know the other box you are referring to, on the corner where Pirniefield pl meets Seafield Pl and Boothacre Cottages.

The Front of the Edinburgh Police Box at Links Gardens. It is painted primarily white with green highlights and roof. There is a plate for attaching a Siren on its roof. It is currently a coffee stall trading as "The wee Coffee Box". Behind the Box the Leith Links Air Raid Reporting (ARP), later Civil Defence, Report Centre can be seen. This was 1 of 5 built in 1941, of which 3 remain. It is now used by Leith Athletic Football Club.

The rear of the Edinburgh Police Box at Links Gardens. It is painted primarily white with green highlights and roof. There is a plate for attaching a Siren on its roof. It is currently a coffee stall trading as "The wee Coffee Box".

Located next to the Leith Links ARP Report Centre at Links Gardens we have a #EdinburghPoliceBox with a Siren plate fitted.

This box was not listed in any of the lists I have so it is unclear if it was WW2, late 1980's or simply the original box has been replaced.

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Aerial view of Edinburgh Airport (aka Turnhouse Airport) in 1971.

The runway shown, 13/31, which was oriented northwest-southeast, was closed in 2018. Today, all planes use the airport’s single 06/24 runway, which opened in 1977 and is currently undergoing a £30m resurfacing.

In Mid 1970's the (Scottish Office) Home Department Warning Officers position was on the Ops room balcony at Buchan between the Maritime Marshall and Chief Fighter Controller.

The Home Office Warning Officer position at Neathishead & Boulmer were alternative sides of RAF Sector Controller position.

Sirens abandoned in favour of BBC being the primary means of warning. Work in the 1960's, and keep up to date later, was undertaken to make sure there were ways for warning messages to be passes via the ROC from Radar station to BBC should communication with ADOC (later UKRAOC) be lost.

Buchan had 4 Home Department Warning liaison Officers at the end, all Caledonian sector had left to do for 3 people to phone BBC, warn the RGHQ/NRC's & coordinate with Preston/Western (HQ) on warnings and air movements.

Bare minimum organisation that could not be slimmed down any further.

The writing was on the wall for the ROC but the drawn out abandonment of UKWMO a mess.
The warning Teams at Radar/UKRAOC were retained talking to otherwise deserted (UKWMO) SOC's, they were going to move into the RGHQ's, then that was delayed so it was concentrated on Preston before funding pulled

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A small stack of about 10 copies of a zine called 'Coin Flip', subtitled 'the story of our decimal currency'. The cover is made from brown kraft paper but the inside is white paper. The cover shows a blueprint / diagram / design of the original 1 penny coin.

Uncut, unfolded printed sheets of paper ready to be assembled into Coin Flip zine. Nearby is a wide-mouth stapler and a paper cutter.

Cut, but yet-to-be-folded pages from my Coin Flip zine. The inside of the zine shows some diagrams of coins, a newspaper cover of the Daily Mirror from 1971, and some text.

I made my first zine! It's called 'Coin Flip' and it's about that most vital of topics, the UK's mid-century switch to decimal currency. Making zines is fun

Lost nuclear bunker rediscovered at Scarborough Castle The 1960s monitoring post at Scarborough Castle would have housed volunteers in the event of war.

Lost nuclear bunker rediscovered at Scarborough Castle.

Serious moment: I know at least one vast archive of incredible photos of East London's bus and tram history that are lost forever. Because the guy who lovingly took them over decades died without a will and no relatives.

Whole collection lost to house clearance. Probably just binned.

The Shower buckets are fantastic. It is scary how Heath Robinson some decontamination setups appear to be.

I like those plans, great detail with the flow, individual steps and the note on cutting the new doors into the toilet walls to convert them.

Do you know if there is still a Glasgow Police Box in Riverside Museum?

It's been so long since I visited I honestly can't remember.

Aye the audible testing was cancelled late 60's after a police officer over in Longcroft pressed the local control button and an elderly Siren decided to disassemble itself at speed.

The most you would have seen was a lamp lit on one of the control boxes inside if there had been a silent test.

My interest was the Air Raid Sirens, on your beat
Police Boxes 4 (School), 6 (Grassmarket), 11 (Parkside St) had Sirens in 60's. (No 3 might have had one during ww2)

14 (Paliament Sq) had one on the roof (also had the Carrier Control point until it moved to Fettes).

I think no 4 siren moved 80's.

I hadn't appreciated it had gone down from 4 to 3.
5 divisions when the boxes were first introduced in 30's but E soon after became the "mounted" division without an area. It then temporarily went back up to 5 During WW2.

Was there also a box in Dumbiedykes?

I realise on rereading after I posted that the box I only knew as "near Simon's Square" is your box 9 Richmond Lane. I looked up the street names on the map but my brain didn't make the link.