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Eastfield Crescent, DUMBARTON, G82 1DX

On Castlegreen St.

The bridge carries the railway line over Castlegreen Street; the nearest station is Dumbarton East. The road heading off to the right leads to a sewage works: Image Those carrying out the work on the bridge were based nearby, beside the Image

The A814 diverges from the A82 close to the Dumbuck Quarry near Milton. It heads west through Dumbuck, and the eastern suburbs of Dumbarton as Glasgow Road.

Looking towards Glasgow from Gruggies Bridge.

For context, see Image, where this inscribed tablet can be seen on the front of the nearest building on the left. The date 1923 applies only to the houses on that side (the west) of the avenue. Those on the other side were built earlier, in 1914. Dumbarton Building Society had its origins at a special meeting of the Dumbarton Equitable Co-operative Society on the 30th of January 1873. There, Mr John Barr indicated that a number of workers at Messrs Swan's yard wished to form a building society. An interim committee was formed. At their first general meeting, on 26th February, the official committee was appointed. The organisation was at that time called the Dumbarton Land and Buildings Investment Company. The change of name came in February 1878, when the Society came under the Building Societies' Act. On the occasion of their Jubilee Year, a commemorative stone of polished granite, the one shown in the present picture, was built into the corner house on the west side of Silverton Avenue, nearest Glasgow Road. While it is a date stone, after a fashion, it is essentially a commemorative stone for the Society's Jubilee Year. On Saturday 1st December 1923, a ceremony was held at the building, when the stone was unveiled by Mr William A Hutchison, the president. Luncheon was then served in the Co-operative Hall, 46 High Street, Dumbarton, to which members of the Society of thirty years' membership, past members of the Committee, and officials, were invited. The above details are from the "Jubilee Souvenir of Dumbarton Building Society Ltd 1873—1923: Fifty Years' History" (James Lyon, 1923). Another building in Dumbarton has a stone with an inscription mentioning the Society: the stone is shown in Image, and it is built into a tenement block that was originally called Grange Place: Image Below that inscription there used to be the additional text "Erected 1906", but it has fallen off or, more likely, been removed, at some point in the intervening century and more. In addition, the name Grange Place may have appeared above the surviving inscription.

The burn runs beside Buchanan Street before both pass under the railway line just south of Dumbarton East Station. A large patch of butterbur is growing in the foreground.

The picture was taken from the main road (Glasgow Road). Buchanan Street is parallel to the burn, on the right (Image). Only the nearest few metres of the burn's course are in the OS grid square from which the picture was taken. For a view from further ahead, where the burn flows under the railway bridge, see Image The burn is usually deeper; there had been little rain in the weeks before this picture was taken.

By Glasgow Road and Buchanan Street in Dumbarton.