There was a couple of Zeppelin raids as far north as Edinburgh, although I don’t think the few bombs dropped caused any damage. Certainly, some were dropped on fields north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

As well as Zeppelin attacks on London, in the latter part of WWI the Germans attacked with Gotha bombers. The War Office was responsible for air defence and set up a whole warning organisation with sound locators and observers. Fighter aircraft had difficulty in reaching the altitudes flown by Zeppelins, but several were shot down, especially after the introduction of incendiary ammunition.

The First World War isn’t my specialty but there are an awful lot of books on the subject which will go into the sort of detail you’re looking for.

Radar Archive, no need but thanks for the offer. A google search has found em a grid reference. OS Sheet 4 212717. Should suffice I think. Ive also found out that there is an abandoned radar station from the second world war present also. This may be worth an exploration.

There was indeed a radar station on Fair Isle, up on Ward Hill, the highest point on the island. There were, in fact, two stations there which have been almost completely demolished. I’ve never been there and only seen a few photos, so I’ve been able to locate one station, but not the other on the very summit of the hill. The hut foundations apparently lie under a lot of wall rubble and metal remains so I’d really need to get there and see it to sort it out properly. If you want to take photos, I’ll do my best to interpret them for you, although I suspect they will all look like piles of concrete rubble.

There are quite a lot of other radar sites in Shetland, including of course the operational site at Saxa Vord, so if you get tired of looking at birds and airfields and wrecks, you could always go and look at hut foundations!

I don’t know if you will have the opportunity to make the trip out to Fair Isle, but if you do, take it. There are still substantial sections of a Heinkel He 111 on the island where it crash landed in, IIRC, 1941.

I can perhaps provide a few different ones to the list (although some have been mentioned already):

RAF Association
Air-Britain
Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland
Friends of RAF Air Defence Radar Museum
Flypast Subscriber Club

ex-member of RAF Historical Society
ex-member of Fortress Study Group

I believe it was originally started by the local ATC squadron, but has expanded since then. I’ve never been, but they seem to have a very good collection including bits of the Heinkel He 111 shot down on 28 October 1939 – the first enemy aircraft to crash on mainland Britain since WW1.