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Kirkton Road, DUMBARTON, G82 4AS

The photograph was taken from the same point as Image, but is a view in the opposite direction. Nearly 300 metres ahead, the road meets Dixon Drive.

Dixon Bowling Club Dumbarton

View down from Kirktonhill to West Bridgend Dumbarton

This photograph was taken from Image The name "Carmelite Monastery" is shown on the entrance gates, which are located only a short distance further up the road. The building, which is also known as Garmoyle House, was built in 1890. It is home to Carmelite Nuns. According to their own website, "The Carmelite Nuns are part of the Roman Catholic Church, belonging to the world-wide Order of the Discalced Carmelites". "Garmoyle Light-ship floats due south from the mansion, and after the particular place which gives its name to it I presume the house is named" [Donald MacLeod, "Dumbarton Ancient and Modern" (1893), Chapter XXXVII]. There is a photograph of the Garmoyle Lightship on page 98 of John F Riddell's "Clyde Navigation" (1979); the caption mentions that it was replaced by a buoy in 1905.

On Clydeshore Road.

With a rather grand house in between the two roads.

From the path through the park.

Behind the wall, to the left of the road, are the former grounds of Keil School; see Image for the main description. However, a few of the school's properties were located on the other (eastern) side of Helenslee Road; on that side (to the right in this photograph) was Islay Kerr House, which accommodated some of the school's boarding pupils. Islay Kerr was a business associate and long-time friend of the founder of Keil School, William Mackinnon. The building was acquired for the school in 1963, and had formerly been called "Dunstane"; the architect was A.C.Denny (see the tags associated with this photograph). [According to his obituary, which was published in the Glasgow Herald issue of 10th December 1951, Islay Kerr had been largely responsible for Keil School's move from the original site at Southend (in Kintyre) to Helenslee in Dumbarton, and "it was at his suggestion that the governors bought part of an adjoining field to prevent the encroachment of a projected housing scheme on the policies of the school".] The boarding houses for pupils at Keil School were: Islay Kerr House, just mentioned; School House (these pupils stayed in the main school building, the mansion house of Helenslee itself, where a mezzanine floor included many dormitories); Mason House (see Image); and New House, latterly called Mackinnon House (see Image). Non-boarding pupils, a minority, made up an additional "day house". The origins of the names Islay Kerr House and Mackinnon House are clear from the above account. Mason House was named after Mr James Mason, an early headmaster of the school. Also formerly located on the eastern side of Helenslee Road, but now gone, was another building, which incorporated chemistry and biology classrooms.

The tall trees in the background are in the Arboretum; Levengrove House, now long gone, was located near there. An information panel visible left of centre identifies the species.