IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Stirling Road, ALEXANDRIA, G83 8EP

Entering Balloch via the A811, Stirling Road.

A Image heads off to the photographer's right. That picture was taken from the same spot: note that the fence post at the far left in that view is on the right in this one. Current mapping shows a milestone somewhere ahead, but does not pinpoint its location. It is marked with greater precision on the second-edition map (1897): its position was beside the tall tree that can be seen not far ahead, to the right (east) of the road. It is no longer present (which is probably why modern mapping is a little vague about where it is); perhaps it was removed because it was viewed as cluttering the pavement, or it may be that it was hit by a vehicle leaving the road. The same comments apply to the milestone supposedly present almost opposite the start of the Image It was at about Image, on the east side of the road, a mile to the NNE of the spot where the present picture was taken. There is no pavement on that side of the road, but vehicles often travel too fast there, and one of them would have hit the milestone sooner or later.

The small wooded area in the right background is around the disused quarry that is marked on the map at Image According to map evidence, the quarry and woods were not present in 1860; the quarry was in use in 1898, and was disused by 1914. The picture was taken from Stirling Road: Image was taken from the same place; note the fence post on the right in that image, which is at the far left in the present picture.

Silage crop awaiting baling and bagging.

More roadside clutter on the edge of Balloch. There were no fixed cameras on the road at the time of submission, but the vans are a common sight along the road to Stirling. Usually on this road you will be stuck behind either: a lorry, tractor, scenery braked Micra or a large slow moving cyclist taking photographs for Geograph, so the temptation to speed will not be present.

A811 becomes Stirling Road beyond this point

From the A811 road from the direction of Stirling.

Seven houses and nineteen flats are to be built on the fenced-off area shown near the centre of the picture; the site is on the northern side of Dumbain Road. See also Image, a closer view about a month later.

Seven houses and nineteen flats would be built here, on the northern side of Dumbain Road. The view is from the junction of Dumbain Road and Manse Drive. See Image for an earlier and more distant view from a different angle. The finished development would be called Image