Old travel Blog photograph of Castle Park Barracks in Dunbar, East Lothian. The barracks have their origins in a hotel known as the New Inn which provided accommodation for officers from 1797. Private soldiers, who were not allowed to use the New Inn, had to use tented accommodation at Belhaven Sands and West Barns Links during the Napoleonic Wars. The War Office acquired both the hotel and Lauderdale House, a large property designed by Robert Adam, and developed the whole site into barracks in 1855. During the First World War the barracks served as the 6th cavalry depot providing accommodation for the 1st King's Dragoon Guards, the 5th Dragoon Guards, the 1st Royal Dragoons and the 2nd Dragoons Royal Scots Greys. During the Second World War the barracks served as headquarters for the 165th Officer Cadet Training Unit. The barracks were decommissioned in 1955 and the property sold to Dunbar Council. Dunbar is a town in East Lothian on the south east coast of Scotland, approximately 28 miles east of Edinburgh and 28 miles from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is home to the Dunbar Lifeboat Station, the second oldest RNLI station in Scotland. Dunbar gained a reputation as a seaside holiday and golfing resort in the 19th century. I hope these might be of interest to folks with Scottish Ancestry or Roots in Scotland.
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