Bandeath

A walk today around Bandeath Munitions Depot. 3 miles east of Stirling

 

It was an Admiralty Depot during World War 1 with a POW camp nearby. It became a Royal Navy Armament Depot during World War 11

 

View over to Alloa

The site had 30 warehouses built with earth blast walls. This would send an accidental blast upwards

 

The munitions were taken down to the river to this pier by rail and loaded on to Victualling Inshore Craft and carried along the river and out to sea where they supplied the British Fleet

 

 

The ground is used to graze sheep. It was sold to Central Region in 1978 and is now an Industrial Estate. It was a strange walk today. There is an eerie feeling about it. Ugly but interesting