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Main Street, DUMBARTON, G82 4LX

The statue is located outside Image, and was unveiled on the 27th of August, 2011. It commemorates volunteers from Renton who joined the International Brigades to defend the Spanish Republican government against Franco's forces.

The building, which was later(*) renamed the John Connolly Centre, is on Main Street. The statue of a bull, visible at the right, was unveiled in August of 2011: Image [(*) See the back page of the "Lennox Herald" of 15 Nov 2013.] When the first-edition OS map was surveyed in 1860, Renton had a Gaelic Free Church. The centre of that church was at about the south-eastern corner of the modern building shown here. For the rear, see Image

It was built in 1887, and it served as Renton Public Library before becoming Renton Mosque (or West Dunbartonshire Muslim Education Society). See Image for another contributor's earlier picture. Part of a house can be seen to its right (north); that was the site of Renton Public Hall, later known as the Roxy Cinema; it eventually burned down (in the 1970s, I think).

The view is through a locked gate at the top of a flight of steps (I was simply curious about where they led): Image The building is one that I always knew as Renton Leisure Centre, a name I continue to use even though the building has had several changes of name since then: see Image, showing the front.

Victoria Institute Renton was a local Library now closed without public consultation by W Dunbartonshire Council

The view is from where Image crosses above the railway line. McNaught Place is ahead; the clubhouse of Renton Bowling Club is on the right. Back Street heads off to the left; the road was then being resurfaced: Image Image is in the left background.

The view is from the footpath / cycle path along the west side of the River Leven. The building itself is set back about 80 metres from Main Street, and access to it is by means of a pend through a building set closer to the street. When this building was erected there were two churches nearby; another one would be built just a few years later: Image The existing ones nearby were the Gaelic Free Church at Image, about 40 metres to the northwest of Rossbank Place (see comments at Image), and one that is variously labelled "Mission Church" (1860), "U.P.Church" (1897) and "U.F.Church" (1914), at Image, corresponding to present-day Trinity Place, 60 metres WSW of Rossbank Place. See the last paragraph at Image for the dates of the two churches that are no longer present; the "Parish Church in Alexander St" mentioned there is Renton Trinity Parish Church itself.

The footpath at the bottom is also part of cycle route NCN 7. The River Leven itself can be seen directly ahead. Behind the photographer is a locked gate, beyond which is Image