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Almora Drive, DUMBARTON, G82 1AE

See Image The building on the right is Dogs Loan pumping station. Ahead, on the left, is a railway underpass (shown from the other side here: Image); on its far side is the beach.

The cramped tunnel is shown from another angle in Image For more context, see Image The underpass is shown from the other side in Image

The same underpass is shown from the other side here: Image For a view from another angle, see Image; for more context, see Image Hunter's Burn (see Image) flows through the centre of the underpass; pedestrians who are prepared to stoop over can also get through by using the ledges on either side of the burn.

See Image The path is perhaps called Dog's Loan; Dog's Loan Pumping Station is at its southern end. Hunter's Burn rises at a well which is located at the south-western side of the base of Dumbowie Hill (Image); although diverted beneath nearby areas of housing, the burn reappears above ground near this point, and follows the side of this footpath; at the end of the path, the burn flows underneath a railway underpass (Image) before emerging onto the beach (Image). The OS Object Name Book (1890s), giving authority for the name's appearance on the map, describes the burn as "a small stream on the High Mains of Dumbuck. The name is not generally known, but the proprietor wishes it to be adopted. The name has its origins not from a person's name but [from] the sportsmen or Hunters". On High Mains of Dumbuck, see Image and Image

The burn flows through the centre of the Image (Image) in the background, and then emerges from the concrete structure in the foreground, to flow into the Clyde: Image

This singing male was present at the RSPB reserve on the Inner Clyde between 2 June and 4 July 2005. This is an improvised digiscoped image using an Opticron Imagic 80/45 telescope and 34xW HR eyepiece in conjunction with the camera.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the area from here to about 200 metres ahead was part of a rifle range; see Image The distance just given is approximate; the 1896 map does not specify the boundaries or the extent of the rifle range.

This part of the foreshore is labelled "Rifle Range" on the second-edition OS map (1896); that includes not just the clear lane that is presently a path, but also the overgrown area just to the left of it. See also Image, a view back from near the eastern end of the former rifle range. As far as I know, there are no visible remains.

The view is from a Image The vessel in the distance is the Clyde Puffer VIC 32; I obtained some close-up photographs of it as it passed. Here is where it was four days earlier: Image

The 3195ft (974m) high mountain dominates the backdrop in this telephoto view from Old Greenock Road to the west of Bishopton.