Old Luss Road
Introduction
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Old Luss Road
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 27 Nov 2010
The photograph was taken from beside the junction with Image Compare Image, a view in the opposite direction along the same street; part of the same house is visible at the right-hand edge of that photo. I have had the building described to me, accurately or not, as the former "Swiss Embassy". At any rate, this building used to be the home of Ernst Hofstetter, the Swiss Managing-Director of the British Silk Dyeing Company, whose factory was nearby. According to the book "Behind the Silken Veil" (Ian Bisland & Malcolm Lobban), he came to Balloch in the 1930s, and, with his wife Suzanne and their children, lived in this house, called Villa Suzanne. [A certain Ernst Hofstetter, based in Sydney, Australia, was Deputy Consul General of Switzerland there until about 2010. It seems likely that he was a descendent or relative of the one mentioned above.]
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Image Location
Latitude
56.001846
Longitude
-4.592395