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Bank Street, ALEXANDRIA, G83 0UJ

Photograph taken from the Bonhill Bridge end of Bank Street Alexandria

See Image for an earlier view. Although the photographs look quite different, the viewpoints are not far apart; the same building appears on the left in both pictures, and Image is visible in the distance. In the present photograph, the large building on the right, in the middle distance, is Image

View of St. Mary's Primary School, Bank Street Alexandria

The picture was taken from the junction with Image; the building at the extreme right in that photograph appears on the left in this one. The Ferryfields development was built c.2005. The name comes from the Ferryfield Print Works which once occupied this area.

Amongst other things, this has been public hall, a cinema, and a bingo club. The date 1862 appears in the roundel at the top of the building. For further details, see Image

This category B listed building stands at the junction of Bridge Street and Bank Street (visible on the right), and was built in 1862 as a public hall. It was later put to use as the Hall Cinema, and then, as the remaining lettering shows, the Vale Bingo Club. At the time when this photograph was taken, it was being used as a furniture showroom. For another view, see Image Its listed building report provides further details: http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/designation/LB43193 (at Historic Environment Scotland). An old photograph of Bonhill Bridge from c.1893 shows a small structure in front of this building: a drinking fountain, which was "a gift to the community by the Smolletts, and was erected in 1879 to commemorate the opening of the 'Tank' or Overton Reservoir (Image). The fountain was removed in the 1930s presumably because cars were more reluctant to go round it than horses had been" ["The Old Vale and the New", Jones/Hopner, 1981]. (The reservoir mentioned above is shown in Image)

View from Bonhill Bridge, Alexandria: KiltWalkers making good time - this is about five and a half hours into the walk, with 24 and a half miles completed, so these walkers have kept up a rattling pace of well-over 4mph. The marshals told me there had been about ten people just ahead of this group. See also Image and Image

(Symphytum officinale) See Image, which shows this patch in the foreground, for more context. In the present view, and likewise included to provide some identifiable context, is Image on the other bank of the Leven. The plant itself has long "wings" (flange-like features) running down the stem from the point of attachment of the leaves. In this and other respects, it differs from Image (shown further downriver). Some other Comfrey species or hybrids are commonly encountered.

Most areas around Glasgow seem to have a Railway Inn or a Station Bar - this is Alexandria's.

This mural, on the side of the Laughing Fox lounge bar on Bridge Street in Alexandria, is new; the artist, Barry the Cat, had completed it about a week before the picture was taken. Note the chimney detail. In the right foreground is part of the Image See also Image, a nearby mural painted by same artist a little later.