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Wallace Tower Way, DUMBARTON, G82 1AN

The gates are a reminder of the former use of the site by Allied Distillers: see Image As noted there, the Blackburn Aircraft Factory had earlier occupied the same site.

Traces of when this area was heavily industrialised. This was the site of the Blackburn Aircraft Works http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/89047/details/dumbarton+castle+road+blackburn+aircraft+works/ . The tracks led to the docks which were once located behind the photographer, but are now a housing estate.

There is much new housing between Glasgow Road and the Castle and the ground is being prepared for much more.

Traces of when this area was heavily industrialised. This was the site of the Blackburn Aircraft Works http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/89047/details/dumbarton+castle+road+blackburn+aircraft+works/ . The tracks led to the docks which were once located behind the photographer, but are now a housing estate.

This is a view along Castle Road. Dumbarton Rock, with some of the buildings of Dumbarton Castle, can be seen at its far end. The nearer buildings are part of Image, as is the road branching off to the right, which is called Denny Road (the Denny family were prominent in the local shipbuilding industry; see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Dumbarton-Cemetery#shipbuilding-and-other-industries for further details). See also Image / Image / Image

Castle Road is in the foreground.

Leading to Dumbarton Rock and Dumbarton Castle.

Castle Road is so called because it leads (if followed in this direction) from Dumbarton Castle to the main road (Glasgow Road) through Dumbarton East. The large buildings on the right were once part of the Blackburn Aircraft Factory, and later part of a bottling plant. They are now gone. See also Image, taken on the same day as the present picture, and looking in the same direction, but from further back. A later picture, a view in the opposite direction, also shows the buildings: Image Two views from above (from Dumbarton Castle) show the area to the right (east) of the road before and after the removal of the buildings: Image (before) and Image (after). Behind the wall on the left is the ground of Dumbarton Football Club (the actual name of the stadium changes according to the current sponsorship arrangements: for example, Image / Image). As early OS maps reveal, the current (as of 2014) location of the stadium was once the tidal basin of a shipbuilding yard. The club had previously been based at Boghead (c.Image, now the site of an area of housing called Miller Court). At the time the present picture was submitted, late in 2014, there was some talk of moving again, to a site close to Image, also known locally as Young's Farm.