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Barrs Terrace, DUMBARTON, G82 5PE

The photograph was taken from the junction with Image

Barrs Terrace is on the left. For the individual streets, see Image and Image

For detail, see William Craig's earlier photograph: Image When the present picture was taken, the hotel was up for sale; the view is from the other side of the Image

Cardross (Scottish Gaelic: Càrdainn Ros) is a large village on the north side of the Firth of Clyde, situated halfway between Dumbarton and Helensburgh.

This milestone is shown on the first edition of the 1:10560 OS map, surveyed in 1857, and is showing its age, but the text can still be read; it is more legible in a picture taken seven years later, after the milestone had been repainted: Image ← DUNBARTON CROSS 4 MILES → HELENSBURGH 4 MILES I have called this a milestone, although it is really a piece of iron. This one is set in front of a wall; other milestones on the same road are of the same kind, and have had short sections of wall built behind them: Image and Image

For the whole building, see Image and Image This detail is from above the entrance that appears on the right in those pictures. "Erected 1889 in Memoriam JTG". (Or ITG, depending on how the first glyph is read.) As described at the first of the above links, the previous Geilston Halls, which was on the same site, had been destroyed by fire. The JTG/ITG commemorated by this inscription on the second building is, I believe, the Joseph Tucker Geils whose initials also appear on an old well in nearby Geilston Gardens: Image

The stone was present when the first-edition OS map was surveyed (in 1857). It has been repainted in the seven years since an earlier picture was taken: Image

Dunbarton curved by the A814, in parish of Cardross (Argyll & Bute District), Main Road, Cardross, near Reay Avenue. Inscription reads:- : {pointing hand} / DUNBARTON / CROSS / 4.MILES / {line} / {pointing hand} / HELENSBURGH / 4.MILES : Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: AB_DMHL04.