Carlingnose Battery today

Please note that the battery is now part of a house and is Private Property.

The best way to view it is with the satellite view on Google Maps.

A view of the battery and sites of the barracks, submarine mining station and Royal Naval Air Station. This was once a very busy stretch of coast!

Staircase to the Shell Store and Shelter (August 1993)

The Polish Mural

One of the walls in the shell store is decorated with this mural of the Forth Bridge. It is popularly believed to have been painted by Polish soldiers, so probably dates from WWII.

In 1941, the barrage balloon sites at Ferryhills Golf Club, Welldean and Carlingnose were managed by Polish airmen, who had escaped from Poland and made their way across Europe to the UK. By 1942 the sites round North Queensferry were manned by the all-Polish 929 Squadron with Bob Cubin as liaison officer.

The mural alongside a more modern photo. The mural includes the bridge and coastguard cottages above the “Deep-Sea World” quarry.