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Stirling Road, DUMBARTON, G82 3RG

The building straddles the OS grid line. I have used its centre for the subject location.

This is one of a series of images showing various stages of construction of the new manufacturing plant. In the present image, the building appears to be externally complete. Click on the title of the end-note for other views. The new facility was officially opened by Princess Anne on the 25th of April 2012; see Image, unveiled on the same day.

Aggreko's new manufacturing plant is to be in operation by 2012. When this photograph was taken, the exterior of the building looked to be complete, but construction was still taking place inside. Click on the title of the end-note for other views of the construction process.

The picture was taken from the other side of Stirling Road. Click on the title of the end-note for other views of the construction process. The building at the extreme right is a bottling and blending plant, also shown in Image and Image

This is one of a series of pictures showing various stages in the construction of Aggreko's new manufacturing plant at Kilmalid. Click on the title of the end-note for other stages of construction. The present picture was taken from near Image

(Silene vulgaris) The Image has a wild flower area in its grass verge, on the side facing Stirling Road: Image This flower caught my eye as I passed; presumably it simply happened to be in the seeds used to sow the wild flower patch. However, it was the only example of this species in evidence at the time.

It extends part of the way along the side of the Image that faces Stirling Road. Compare Image, taken here.

The item of interest here is the lighter area of short grass in the foreground; the grass is shorter there because it is growing in thin soil on top of a concrete hut base. Here, at NS 40029 77040, the outline of the hut base is quite clear. About 20 metres to the east and to the west of this one, there are similar remains which show some fragments of concrete, but which reveal the overall outline rather less clearly. The large building in the background is a bottling plant (Image) at Kilmalid.

The subject matter here is the area on the near side of the building itself, currently including a car park. When this picture was taken, there was an Aggreko site here at Kilmalid, and another in the Broadmeadow Industrial Estate, Dumbarton. The two facilities were to be consolidated onto the Kilmalid site. The extension to accommodate the currently Broadmeadow-based operations here will replace what is now the car park; a replacement car park will be created further to the south. That new car park will extend into the area shown on the left, currently outside the fence. The picture was framed in what might otherwise seem a lopsided manner in order to include that area. Later pictures show work taking place there: Image / Image