St Mary's Way, Dumbarton

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 1 Jun 2020

The name presumably refers to the long-gone St Mary's Collegiate Church, of which the most conspicuous relic is Image Despite the area's changing beyond recognition in the meantime, there is a certain continuity in that there was a St Mary's Way hereabouts even before the first OS maps of the area were made in c.1860; see the description for Image The church described there as opening in 1843 was located on St Mary's Way; it stood at Image, about 80 metres WSW of the point from which this picture was taken. A memorial that originally stood just outside the front (the SSW side) of that church does survive, but in a quite different location inside (and not far from the main entrance of) Dumbarton Cemetery: Image Returning to what can be seen in the picture: the Denny Civic Theatre is the large dark building on the left. Across the road from it is a bowling green (Dumbarton Bowling Club). A large building, seen from the rear in the right background, is what was once a cinema, and then (until recently, when it succumbed to the pressures of the virus-related lockdown affecting the country), a bingo hall. Further away, just left of centre, are the Risk Street flats, which had recently been renovated: Image

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