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Main Street, DUMBARTON, G82 4NN

The building is shown, a few days earlier, in Image In the present picture, it has been removed, and the buildings behind it have been exposed to view. A later view shows a replacement building under construction on the same site: Image

This building on Main Street, Renton, replaces the one that is shown being demolished in Image The empty plot, after demolition of the previous building, is shown in Image

The building is on the west side of Main Street, Renton. There is a gap to its right (north), but the building was attached to the still-occupied houses just to its left. Demolition was completed a few days later: Image The replacement building on the same site is shown in Image As the map shows, the picture was taken from the path that leads to the western end of Image

The path on the right, nearest the river, is part of a cycle route, NCN 7. Leading up the embankment on the left is a path, about 100 metres long, that leads to Main Street, Renton, beside a pedestrian crossing (as evidence of which, note the top of a traffic light that is visible in the left background). That end of the path is also at the western end of Image, which would be visible on the right, were it not for the trees. Behind the photographer, another path like this one leads up the embankment in almost the opposite direction: Image Both paths are marked on the 1:25000 map, but they are more clearly seen on larger-scale mapping.

On Main Street, between King Street and Station Street.

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 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.

Central Bar Renton: some of the few original shops remaining in Main Street, Renton; to the right 1960s shops being demolished