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Old Luss Road, ALEXANDRIA, G83 8QP

This photograph is a view along Lower Stoneymollan Road, looking towards its junction with Old Luss Road (the building on the right stands on the far side of Old Luss Road). See also Image, which is a view in the opposite direction.

The junction of lower Stoneymollan road with the old Luss road, the road leads to a track and footpath off over to Cardross about 8 km away.

For a view in the opposite direction along the same street, see Image In the present photograph, the entrance to Image is in the foreground, on the left; see also Image

See also Image and Image The present view is intended to draw attention to a burn that flows under the road at this point; its waters come from Image and from several other burns. Shortly before it empties into Loch Lomond, the same burn flows under a Image

At the junction with Old Luss Road.

The photograph was taken from beside the junction with Image Compare Image, a view in the opposite direction along the same street; part of the same house is visible at the right-hand edge of that photo. I have had the building described to me, accurately or not, as the former "Swiss Embassy". At any rate, this building used to be the home of Ernst Hofstetter, the Swiss Managing-Director of the British Silk Dyeing Company, whose factory was nearby. According to the book "Behind the Silken Veil" (Ian Bisland & Malcolm Lobban), he came to Balloch in the 1930s, and, with his wife Suzanne and their children, lived in this house, called Villa Suzanne. [A certain Ernst Hofstetter, based in Sydney, Australia, was Deputy Consul General of Switzerland there until about 2010. It seems likely that he was a descendent or relative of the one mentioned above.]

An empty coach park on a damp Sunday afternoon at Loch Lomond Shores.

From the roundabout at Old Luss Road and Balloch Road.

The view is from Old Luss Road; see Image for a view from another angle.

The Three Lochs Way passes the Image, and then follows a path (shown in Image), to Old Luss Road. It follows the section of road shown in the present photograph, then turns right to follow Image After that, the Three Lochs Way crosses a Image and then leads uphill, following the same route as the Stoneymollan Road – http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/451 – as far as a crossroads (Image). From that crossroads, the Stoneymollan Road and the Three Lochs Way follow different routes.