The camp was situated on the North side of Calder Road about 300 yards east of the Union Canal just where the word ESTATE appears on the map of the old Calder Road.
It was built around the beginning of the war as a heavy anti-aircraft battery defending RAF Turnhouse, now Edinburgh Airport.
By 1943 it had four 3.7 static guns sites with a Command Centre and Radar unit. Each was equipped with ammunition lockers and crew shelters. Two magazines were located nearby.
There were 31 Nissen Huts and 11 larger Wooden Huts used for accommodation and admin etc. and a Electricity Generation station.

Decommissioned by May 1945, the site was then used for housing mainly Italian Prisoners of War, often seen shopping locally wearing a round patch on the back of their jackets.
It then became temporary housing for homeless families,
with very basic living conditions.

The accommodation was uninsulated with thin walls.
The windows were frosted glass and wire mesh.
The rooms, either one or two, were small with thin partitions.
There was a cast-iron fire on a brick base with a steel chimney which was the only heating.
There was no oven or hot water and cooking was on a two-ring gas cooker on top of a cupboard.

There was a Communal Toilet block, and Laundry and a General store.
The Warden was called Mr Bowden.

It was demolished by the mid 1950s and the William Thynes and Burtons Biscuit Factories were built on the site.