Leven Street Motors, Bonhill
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Leven Street Motors, Bonhill
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 21 May 2014
This large building at the junction of Burn Street (shown on the left) and Hillbank Street is now used as a garage, but it served as a drill hall during the First World War: see https://canmore.org.uk/site/332989/bonhill-burn-street-drill-hall (at Canmore). For a view from the front of the building, see Image For a slightly more distant view, with context, see Image Another contributor's article provides a useful listing of sites that were used as drill halls during the First World War: http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls Burn Street is so called because a burn used to flow along it: Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.983809
Longitude
-4.569543