[1] The drill hall was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson as the headquarters of the 5th Volunteer Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) and was completed in 1901.

[2] In 1915 the Gretna disaster, the worst crash in the history of British rail travel, killed 227 people and injured 246 others.

The bodies of the victims were laid out in the drill hall prior to burial in Rosebank Cemetery, across Leith Walk in Pilrig.

[7] The Dalmeny Street drill hall was decommissioned and sold to the charity Out of the Blue Arts and Education Trust in 2003.

[8] The group, with the aid of City Architecture Office, transformed the drill hall into an arts and education centre.