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Middleton Street, ALEXANDRIA, G83 0DQ

Looking north-westward.

taken looking south at the junction of Gilmour street and Middleton street

Gilmour Institute Alexandria now library

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.)

For the whole building, see Image In relation to that picture, this bench mark is on the near left corner of the building, on the side of the corner that faces the street. I looked for this mark after consulting OS records, rather than noticing it by chance. According to the Ordnance Survey's own database, this is a 3rd-order cut bench mark, 22.450 metres above Newlyn Datum.

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

See Image for the main description. The features shown in the present photograph are located above the main entrance. For a closer look at the carved foliage, see Image Click on the end-note title for other images of the building.

See Image for the main description of the building as a whole, and Image for a wider view of the area in which the detail shown in the present photograph occurs. Around the foliage, it is possible to make out the vestiges of some lettering ("VALE", "[S]COTCH", "[GI]RLS" and "[S]OCIETY", referring to the Scotch Girls' Friendly Society); the building was originally designated an Institute for Working Girls, complementing the men-only Image nearby. Click on the end-note title for other pictures of the building.

See Image for the main description, and for the whole building. The present picture shows details above the main entrance (on the southern side). At the top is the Gilmour crest and motto: "Nil penna sed usus" ("not the pen, but its use"); below that are details relating to use of the building as a Masonic Temple from 1921 onwards: "Lodge Bonhill and Alexandria St Andrew's Royal Arch 1826—1921 Masonic Temple № 321." Click on the end-note title for other pictures.

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.