Woodyard House

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Woodyard House by Lairich Rig as part of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk

Woodyard House

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 13 Jan 2012

The house was formerly part of a shipbuilding yard, the Woodyard. In the early days of Dumbarton's shipbuilding industry, Archibald McLachlan was based here, building wooden ships, such as the steamer "Trusty" (1814) – see Image and http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Dumbarton-Cemetery#shipbuilding-and-other-industries for more information. The yard is now long gone, but the name of Image, alongside which the house stands, commemorates it. In the 1880s, this house was very much in the heart of the shipbuilding yard; there was a machine shop next to the house, on the north-eastern side, and a larger machine shop at the north-western side. In addition, there was a smithy at the south-eastern side of the house. See also Image (taken from roughly the same area as the present photograph).

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0