centre includes several amenities, including a post box, a variety of seating and tables in the main hall, free public toilets, a petrol station, bicycle and motorcycle parking, photobooths and a water bottle refill station. The Shopping Centre has a community fund that regularly awards large sums of money to local projects and charitable causes. History of the Braid burn and flooding The Braid Burn runs through the area. There was flooding at the bridge and causeway called the "Lady Brigend" in the 16th century. This was probably near the present bridge at "Cameron Mill lade". Local inhabitants petitioned the Privy Council of Scotland to repair the bridge and mitigate the flooding in 1595. James VI allowed them to charge a two pence toll to carriers using the bridge to pay for necessary repairs. The rebel Archibald Wauchope of Niddrie was captured nearby at Bridgend on 12 May 1589 by Andrew Edmonstone, after a standoff was ended by James VI of Scotland. The shopping centre was built on the low-lying flood plain of the Braid Burn, which is culverted for much of its course through this neighbourhood. Flooding of the area took place soon after the centre's opening and has recurred several times: in August 2008 local residents had to deal with metre-high floods. Between 2004 and 2010 the City of Edinburgh Council implemented flood prevention measures along much of the course of the Braid Burn. However the shopping centre and its immediate environs remain a target area for which the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) undertakes to provide flood warnings as necessary. Liberton Bank House and Conan Doyle Medical Centre Liberton Bank House, now a category C listed building, lies on the south-west corner of the site. Built around 1780, it was occupied by the educational and social reformer Mary Burton from 1844. She was friendly with the Conan Doyle family and the young Arthur Conan Doyle, stayed there with her so that he could be close to his school Newington Academy at 6 Arniston Place, which he attended from 1866-68. It also allowed him some refuge from the influence of his alcoholic father. Since a major restoration by Groves-Raines Architects in 2007 this has housed Dunedin School, which provides secondary education for pupils for whom mainstream education is not appropriate. The Conan Doyle Medical Centre next to it was designed by Richard Murphy Architects and opened in 2007.