Lomond Street, Helensburgh
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Lomond Street, Helensburgh
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 9 Jun 2014
Not far ahead is one end of a footbridge over the railway line; Lomond Street continues on the far side of that bridge. The large building near the centre of the picture was employed as a drill hall during the First World War, and is currently a TA centre. There was no building on that site when the first-edition OS map was surveyed in 1860. A long narrow building, captioned "drill hall", is marked on the second-edition map (revised c.1897). On the 1914 revision of the map, the building is much larger: it had been expanded to the south-west, and was almost square; this corresponds to its present-day appearance. Another contributor's article lists the various buildings that were used as drill halls during the First World War: http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls
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Image Location
Latitude
56.003178
Longitude
-4.726429