This is the former Royal Navy Armaments Depot at Bandeath, near Stirling. Built around 1916, it supplied Rosyth Navy Base until closure in the early 1980s. It has been an industrial estate since 1983. There are a variety of wartime buildings on the site, and this is a firewatch post... The shape was designed to deflect the blast from an exploding bomb upwards, away from the sentry. The post is just about big enough for one man! This is one of the ammunition storage buildings. It is raised because the depot was built on a bend of the River Forth and is still liable to flooding, despite extensive flood defences. The walls are thicker than the roof, the idea being that any explosion would therefore travel UP and away from the personnel nearby, and also minimise the danger of the contents of other buildings detonating too. There are several of these in use for a variety of purposes. A surviving patch of chemical paint from wartime, sensitive to the presence of poison gas and designed to give early warning of an attack. Whatever the dilapidated wooden hut in the following pictures held, it was surrounded on all sides by a ten foot high reinforced concrete wall! Regards,Gordon http://freewebs.com/thehistoryvault/