It was built in 1952 as a cold war shelter for the british government and the queen should she happen to be at. This nuclear bunker is under the corstorphine hill embedded in the barnton quarry. In 1949 a flurry of anxiety about a potential nuclear attack from the soviets resulted in the implementation of a programme known as rotor a radar chain for the detection of soviet long range nuclear.
A huge cold war nuclear bunker hidden 100 feet below ground on the site of what used to be an old quarry. Tucked away inside a hill in corstorphine is one of edinburgh s strangest buildings. The structure built on the secluded site of barnton quarry was once a nuclear bunker which.
Hidden away near the top of corstorphine hill is one of edinburgh s most unusual abandoned buildings. Corstorphine hill is one of the hills of edinburgh scotland named for nearby corstorphine there are traditionally said to be seven hills in edinburgh in reference to the seven hills of rome but this figure is debatable and as the city has expanded even more so it is a long ridge shaped hill mostly forested corstorphine woods with broad leaves and has extensive development on its. It will soon be open to the public.
The historic bunker in barnton quarry near edinburgh was built in the 1950s in the midst of fear of soviet power and remained a secret until the 1980s. A secret cold war nuclear bunker in edinburgh which was considered the first defence against the russians and could accommodate 400 politicians underground will open to the public.
