Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess No Activities <p><strong>Pre-booking Essential</strong><span>: bq_dod.eventbrite.co.uk</span></p><p>Information boards, numerous photographs, slideshows and the restoration group volunteers will share the history of the site.</p><p>Due to the active restoration public access is limited to the Ops Well but you will be able to see into the variety of rooms off this area, giving a sense of how extensive this building, and indeed the project as a whole, is.</p><p> </p> OpeningTime1 10:00 - 16:00 OpeningDate1 28/9/2019 OpeningDate2 29/9/2019 OpeningTime2 10:00 - 16:00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 16579 Refreshments No Street The street address 35 Clermiston Road North Postcode EH4 7BN Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barnton Quarry ROTOR Bunker Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1513 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.95967,-3.27808; Description An account of the resource <p>During WWII, Barnton Quarry was the home of the RAF sector operations centre for the Turnhouse Sector of 13 Group, RAF Fighter Command. From this building, Radar returns from German aircraft were triangulated and RAF fighter attacks were coordinated. After WWII, the site was developed into a Cold War Radar centre with the addition of a large underground bunker. The site is currently under restoration, but the RAF operations room of the surface WWII SOC will be open to the public.</p><p><strong>GLOBAL CONNECTIONS</strong></p><p>Global Connections, albeit negative ones, are the entire reason for this facility. Initially set up due to the fear of Nazi bombing during the Second World War, the facility was greatly extended and repurposed in the early 1950’s to counter the emerging Cold War threat.</p><p><strong>ACTIVITIES</strong></p><p>Information boards, numerous photographs, slideshows and the restoration group volunteers will share the history of the site.</p><p>Due to the active restoration public access is limited to the Ops Well but you will be able to see into the variety of rooms off this area, giving a sense of how extensive this building, and indeed the project as a whole, is.</p><p>Booking essential via bq_dod.eventbrite.co.uk</p>