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Station Street, DUMBARTON, G82 4ND

Looking towards the station from just off Main Street.

The large building on the right is Image, whose grounds are behind the fence; in the 1970s, it replaced the previous school building, which stood on the site of the present-day school pitch. The first turning on the left leads into Image For a view along the same section of the street, but in the opposite direction, see Image See also Image, which was taken from a point further north along the street, looking in the opposite direction.

The view is from Station Street. The building is at the corner of Station Street and Back Street. See Image for a different view. It is a relic of the primary school that preceded the one built in 1975. Before that, it was a secondary school: see the discussion of the Annexe in the end-note.

The building is at the corner of Back Street (which is in the foreground) and Station Street. For further information, see the comments on the Annexe in the end-note. In short, it is a relic of the pre-1975 primary school, and it had earlier been a secondary school. See Image for a view from a different angle.

At the place where this picture was taken, there is a line of tree stumps on the pavement; the fungi shown here were growing on the side of one of them. This dense covering of pustules is an example of the so-called "conidial stage" of the fungus Nectria cinnabarina; its coral-pink colour explains the common name of Coral Spot Fungus. This fungus occurs in dense groups on dead or dying wood - the twigs and branches of (usually) broad-leaved trees - and causes Coral-spot Disease; however, it is not a particularly strong parasite in itself, and its presence on a living plant probably indicates that its host was not in the best of condition to start with. Another commonly-encountered phase of its life-cycle, the so-called "perithecial stage", is shown on the right-hand side of the following photo: Image As with many similar fungal species, it was not realized at first that the two phases were really the same species, and they were originally assigned different scientific names (in this case, the pink conidial stage was named Tuberculina vulgaris). When subsequent research reveals them to be merely two different stages of the same species, one of the two assigned names has to be discarded.

The ground at the centre of the image had recently been waste ground (Image), but was now being laid out for storage; specifically, to support large metal storage containers that were set up here later: Image The fence was replaced soon after the present picture was taken: Image The houses in the central background are on Station Street. Back Street is on the right. Part of this area is seen, as rough ground, at the far right in an earlier picture: Image

The picture was taken about a week after Image The fence was being replaced, as shown here. Compare Image, taken in April 2011, and showing rough ground here, and Image, taken about six months after the present picture, and showing the storage containers that were set up on the site; by that time, replacement of the original fence was complete.

Opened in 1850 by the Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway in its line from Bowling (on the Clyde) to Balloch Pier (on Loch Lomond). View north towards Alexandria and Balloch. Old photographs show this used to be a two-platform station.

See Image (an earlier picture) for context, and for how the site was developed from rough ground.