Dunbar Battery

The Dunbar Battery was constructed during the Napoleonic Wars at the direction of then Dunbar Mayor Robert Fall. Fall witnessed two attacks on Dunbar during the American Revolution by sea captains hoping to raid the town in aid of American colonists. Fall was worried that Dunbar was vulnerable to attacks from the French and needed protection from these invaders from the North Sea. The battery was built with sixteen embrasures to house pounder guns.

The battery was never used in battle and converted in to a hospital in 1874 to treat patients with infectious diseases, it was again used in 1914 as an auxiliary hospital for wounded soldiers during World War One. After the War, the battery was in deteriorating condition but still used for emergency housing until a storm blew the roof off in 1936.

The battery was abandoned and much of it was dismantled after 1937. In 2016 restoration work began and it 2017 the battery was open to tourists under the operation and guidance of the Dunbar Harbour Trust.