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Overburn Avenue, DUMBARTON, G82 2BQ

The buildings on the right were part of the very extensive J&B plant. See Image for the opposite view. BBC Scotland now has studios on the site, and some programmes are filmed here. Other land that formerly made up the J&B plant has become part of the Lomondgate development.

Image is on the right; that picture shows it before this work took place. Comparison of the present picture with Image, taken shortly after the completion of the work, shows that the buildings on Overburn Avenue were also included in the work.

For the change in appearance of these buildings, compare the present picture with Image, taken while work was in progress, and with Image, taken a few years earlier.

Park Crescent is shown here from the point where it leaves Overburn Avenue, part of which is visible in the foreground; compare the later Image, a wider view. The red sandstone building visible through the trees at the end of the road is Braehead Primary School. Work took place on the buildings of Park Crescent in 2018. It is shown during that work in Image, and shortly after its completion in Image

The buildings on the left were part of the very extensive J&B plant. See Image for the opposite view. BBC Scotland now has studios on the site, and some programmes are filmed here. Other land that formerly made up the J&B plant has become part of the Lomondgate development.

This start of this short route (500 yards long) is signposted at the junction shown in Image; the first part of the path is shown in Image The photograph was taken from a location about halfway along the path, which ends at the point from which Image was taken. On the right, on the other side of the fence, part of Broadmeadow Industrial Estate is visible. See Image for a view in the opposite direction.

The view is from about 270 metres along the path shown (from its start) in Image; in other words, about two-thirds of the way to Overburn Avenue, as comparison with the 1:25000 map will reveal. Behind the fence on the right is part of Broadmeadow Industrial Estate, specifically, the part of it between Birch Road and Elm Road (all of the industrial estate's roads are named after trees). Not much further ahead, the path ends where it meets Overburn Avenue, in the area shown in Image See Image for a view in the opposite direction.

The plants were in the area shown just to the left (north) of the path in Image These pale yellowish lumps in the leaf-blade of Ground-elder (Aegopodium podagria) are galls caused by the fungus Puccinia aegopodii. Smaller, dark (but shiny) dots can be seen on some of them; they were much more abundant on the underside. These dark spots might easily be taken for eggs or larvae, but they are telia (singular "telium"), a reproductive structure produced by the fungus. Fungi often produce several distinct kinds of spores, and telia produce a kind known as teliospores. There were quite a few examples of this gall alongside the path. The identification guide "British Plant Galls" (2ed; Redfern & Shirley, 2011) notes that this gall is "probably common but overlooked".

This council depot is located on the western side of Elm Road, in Broadmeadow Industrial Estate.

Followed in this direction, the path leads from Overburn Avenue to the River Leven, with Broadmeadow Industrial Estate to the left (south) and the course of Dumbarton Golf Club to the right. See Image and Image for views in the opposite direction.