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Milton Court, DUMBARTON, G82 2UD

From Milton Brae.

Milton Brae is the name of the road. This is a view downhill; the River Clyde can be seen in the background. For a view uphill from about 200 metres further down the road, see Image, which also mentions a few features that can be seen alongside the road.

The road is shown in Image In the background of that picture, there is a green fence to the left of the road. The area shown here is at the far end of that fence. OS maps from c.1970 show a drinking fountain here (marked "D Fn"). It is now gone, but its former site is the semicircular area at the foot of the wall. The year of construction, 1937, can still be read on it; for a closer look, see Image The carved stonework at the entrance of Image, only a short distance down the road, is probably from the same period: Image and Image

The ruined drinking fountain shown here is at the foot of a wall on the western side of Image For a view in context, and for further details, see Image The drinking fountain was built in 1937; the year is inscribed on the uppermost stone of the arch.

Image is to the photographer's left, flowing just behind and parallel to the fence. Much of the area ahead is now laid out as playing fields: Image Of the buildings visible ahead, the one furthest to the left occupies what was, in 1860, the site of a corn mill. At the same time, the Milton Printworks were behind (to the north of) that house, the scatter of buildings extending about 220 metres N—S. Bleaching and calico printing was established in Milton at the end of the eighteenth century; the work was mechanised in the mid-nineteenth century. In the second half of that century, paper manufacturing was carried on here. In 1860, the ruins of a cotton mill on the course of the Milton Burn were visible at about Image, beside the northern end of the printworks.

This road is called Milton Brae; the one branching off to the right is Milton Hill. On the left, there are brick pillars at an entrance of Image There is some carved stonework on those pillars, dating from about 1937: Image / Image A little further up the road, at the top of the green fence to the left of the road, the remains of a drinking fountain, dating from 1937, can be seen: Image and Image See Image for a view downhill from about 200 metres further up the road.

The picture was taken from Image See also Image and Image For a view of another part of this area, see Image In the present view, Dumbuck Hill is in the background (Image).

This road leads off from Image; one of the notices here says "Private Road / No Thoroughfare".

Firth of Clyde in the background

As shown in Image, there are some brick pillars at an entrance to Image The present picture shows the stonework on the one on the right, which bears the text "KING GEORGE'S FIELD". For the corresponding detail on the left pillar, see Image For reasons explained in the end-note, the stones on both pillars have twins in many other King George's Fields. See, for example, Image in Port Glasgow, a perfect match for the stone shown in the present photograph.