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Brucehill Road, DUMBARTON, G82 4ER

The line is cut through red sandstone on the approach to the tunnels from the west. Viewed from and east bound train.

This street is simply called Westfield. The photograph was taken from the junction with Image (the nearest of the houses also appears in that picture).

Windows which face north on the former Chapel of Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame at Cardross Road, Dumbarton

The ferns are growing high up on Brucehill Cliffs, which are part of a Local Nature Conservation Site; see Image for details (and for the context). The work that is cited there notes that the cliffs, which are of red sandstone, "are almost constantly wet, and the dripping water sustains an interesting floral community, most notably the locally rare royal fern – the largest colony in West Dunbartonshire. The ferns are rooted directly into the cliff faces." In "A Natural History of Britain's Ferns" (1988), Christopher N. Page devotes a section to "Cliff-face Royal Fern Communities"; he notes there that where the Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis) "is present in cliffside habitats it usually occurs mainly as very numerous but mostly juvenile plants ... Only occasional plants have fertile fronds ...", and he mentions that, although sometimes the ferns occur singly at such sites, "where the spread of run-off water creates fairly large areas of permanently damp rock, quite dense colonies with numerous plants may occur". That description fits this environment very well; no fertile fronds were apparent when I took this photograph (contrast Image and Image, where some typically narrow, upright, brownish fertile fronds can be seen in the centre of the clumps). Page also notes that acidic, peaty run-off water can provide a suitable cliffside habitat for Osmunda regalis (Royal Fern), while lime-rich run-off is suitable for Adiantum capillus-veneris (Maidenhair Fern).

A statue on the South wall of the former Chapel of Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame at Cardross Road

The South wall of the Chapel of Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame at Cardross Road, Dumbarton i

Plaque on the South wall of the disused Chapel of Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame at Cardross Road

The Chapel of the former Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame at Cardross Road, Dumbarton is all that is left of the former Convent and Our Lady of Peace High School the chapel is hopefully to be Converted into six residential units. The community of the Sisters of Notre Dame have moved into nearby Craigend House

This is not the original one (Image), which was erected in 1928, and which was spliced partway up; this is its replacement. However, the symbolic weather vane, with crown and battle axe, is still present: Image The view is across Brucehill Road. Cardross Road runs left to right behind the flagstaff, and Castlehill Road leads uphill behind it. See Image for a view from another angle.

The crown and battle axe are as in an earlier picture, Image, though with some repainting, but the flagstaff itself had been replaced in the meantime. The present picture shows the weather vane on the replacement flagstaff, present in late 2018: Image / Image The original one (erected by the Dumbarton Patriotic Association in 1928) is shown in Image