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Mill Lade, DUMBARTON, G82 4NY

The water is flowing towards the point from which the picture was taken; the lade outflow (Image) is some way behind the photographer. The works for which the lade was constructed are long gone, but the lade itself has been preserved as a feature of the new housing estate. (The picture was taken from Taylor Street. When this image was being submitted, not all scales of OS mapping showed the housing, which was new, and they showed nearby parts of the lade as still covered up; some parts of the lade were uncovered before construction of houses began, and it was decided that they should be left exposed to view.)

By 2018, when this picture was submitted, a new housing development had been built alongside the lade, which was left open: Image Click on the end-note title for other views of the lade at different periods.

Marked as "works" on the 1:25000 map, now demolished pending renovation.

When this picture was taken, a housing development at Dalquhurn, on what was once the site of Dalquhurn Dye Works, was still under construction. A lade that was built for the dye works had long been covered, but is being kept open as a feature of the new development, as shown here. An equivalent view from about two years earlier shows how the site has changed: Image Note that the houses appearing on the left in that photograph can also be seen in the present photograph.

The lade originally served the dye-works at Dalquhurn. A housing development has recently been completed here. Compare two earlier photographs to show how the old lade changed during the construction process: Image / Image See also Image

These plants were probably shocked into flower because the surrounding woodland had been recently felled. April-June the usual flowering period. http://www.wildflowersofstrathclydepark.org.uk/Crosswort.htm

Dalquharn Works Renton once a Cotton Mill and Print and Dye works

According to my map-based research, presented in the article linked from the end-note, the main farmhouse at Pillanflatt was at or near the site of the house that is just left of centre, where what looks like a white car with a magenta roof is parked. An 1841 plan shows what looks like a courtyard in front of the farmhouse: the position of the courtyard would correspond, roughly, to the present-day road in front of the house. The 1841 plan shows two other farm buildings to the west of the main farmhouse; for their position, see Image Both that site and the one shown in the present picture are on Taylor Street, in a recently-built housing development at Dalquhurn. These positions are approximate only (I estimate them to be correct to within 50 metres or so); see the article for a full discussion. See also the annotated satellite view that is linked from the end-note.

(The galls in my photograph are past their best. Compare another example, photographed in a different year, but earlier in the season, which shows more attractive colours: Image) Two kinds of leaf gall were present in abundance on the native (or common) alder trees (Alnus glutinosa) in this area; both kinds could often be found on the same tree. The growths shown in this photo are caused by the gall mite Eriophyes laevis, and they are scattered over the upper surface of the leaf; on the underside, there are only small inconspicuous openings. Many leaves were much more densely galled than this, sometimes to the extent that the leaves became quite distorted. The other variety of gall that was present on these trees is shown here: Image