The Drill Hall

Built in 1901 for the Royal Scots & was designed by the same architect who designed the National Portrait Gallery & the McEwan Hall.
In 1915 the Gretna disaster, the worst crash in the history of British rail travel, killed 227 people. 102 of those were young men from the 7th (Leith) Battalion on the way to Gallipoli. The bodies of the victims were laid out in the Drill Hall prior to burial in Rosebank Cemetery. The Drill Hall still stands today as a memorial to one of the greatest tragedies to affect the community of Leith.