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Overton Street, ALEXANDRIA, G83 0DL

The mural had only recently been painted when this picture was taken. It is by Barry the Cat, who had recently painted the nearby Image The building is on Overton Street (part of which is visible in the foreground), which becomes Overton Road beyond the next junction.

This postbox is located at the junction of Middleton Street and Overtoun Street. (More precisely, a house stands at the SW corner of the crossroads; the postbox is set into its north-facing wall, only inches from the NE corner of the house.)

The picture shows the junction of Middleton Street (running from left to right) and Overton Road (entering at the lower left corner of the picture). The building at the corner opposite the photographer's position is labelled a "drill hall" on the 1:2500 OS map revision of c.1914. See https://canmore.org.uk/site/332996/alexandria-1-5-overton-street-drill-hall (at Canmore) for further details of its use then, and its subsequent conversion. Canmore describes the building as having a two-storey front with a single-storey section behind; those features are evident in the picture. Another contributor's article lists this and other buildings that were employed as drill halls during the First World War: http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls

Looking southward.

Looking north-westward.

The enclosure is set against the northern boundary wall of Image The initials WB can be seen at the top of the structure; this memorial was erected by the Alexandria builder William Barlas (who died in 1894, aged 74) to commemorate his wife Veir Forrest (who died in 1863, aged 45), and their son Archibald, who died in 1849. William's wife is also commemorated in some local place-names. See the entry for "Veir Place" at http://www.valeofleven.org.uk/scottishplacenames/Vvale_names.html (Vale of Leven website); for a view of Veir Terrace, also mentioned there, see Image

This is a view from the other side of Main Street. The main gate is between two pillars. A war memorial used to stand in the kirkyard, just beyond and to the left of that gate, but it now stands beside the present-day Image: see Image

This picture was taken from Church Street. For a view of the church from the other side, see Image The present photograph also shows the kirkyard (Image) and its boundary wall. The structure that is built into the eastern wall is Image The houses at the extreme right are on Image