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Argyll Street, ALEXANDRIA, G83 0SF

This picture was taken from the Rosshead side of the bridge; it leads to the junction of Argyll Street and Burns Street at the south-eastern corner of Levenvale. See Image for a view from the other side. See Image for a view northwards from the bridge, and of Burns Street on the other side, and for more information about the line.

In the foreground is Burns Street, which forms the eastern edge of Levenvale; the footbridge leads to Image For the view north from the bridge, see Image, which also shows Burns Street. For a view from the other side, see Image

The photograph was taken from a Image; its shadow is in the right foreground. Burns Street, which forms the eastern edge of Levenvale, is to the left of the line. The dog-walker is passing Wilkie Place, a block that is set back slightly from Burns street. Not far beyond this point, after passing Levenvale, the railway line now terminates at Balloch Station, although it used to go further. [It used to go as far as Balloch Pier Station (now gone), beside Loch Lomond. The present-day Balloch Station building did not then exist; the Balloch Central Station of that day now serves as Image, and the level crossing that was next to it has also been removed.] The area visible to the right of the line is Fishers Wood; on that side, the footbridge leads to the northern end of Rosshead. See Image for a view of it from the other side.

The view is from a Image The nearer block of flats is on Colquhoun Drive; the other one is on Halkett Crescent; see also Image

The street is named after Friedrich Engels, continuing a political theme that is evident in other street-names nearby: for example, the picture was taken from the junction with Image, and, not far ahead, the street is crossed by Image It ends at Burns Street, which is adjacent and parallel to the railway line at the eastern edge of Levenvale: see Image, which shows Burns Street.

Rosehead: "a cottage, the property of the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Company. Occupied by William [Easson]" [OS Name Books, c.1860]. The cottage is shown on OS maps from the first edition (1860) to at least 1936, though it is only named on the 1860 map. It was situated right next to a railway line, itself long gone; the line used to cross the River Leven by means of Image Rosshead, an area of housing nearby, presumably takes its name, by slight alteration, from the cottage. Another area of housing is directly to the west: Levenvale, which first appears on the 1936 map. That map is odd in that the street names it shows for Levenvale are wrong, with the exception of Argyll Street at the southern end. In a cyclic permutation of the other names, the 1936 map calls Hardie Street Engels Street; Engels Street Lansbury Street; Lansbury Street Burns Street; and Burns Street Hardie Street.

It passes through the northern part of Boathouse Wood, to emerge at Image (an area of housing), beside a small fenced-in games court. See Image for a view in the opposite direction.

It leads to the cycle path beside the River Leven, emerging into the open near Image See Image for a view in the opposite direction.