IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Fisherwood Road, ALEXANDRIA, G83 8SW

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Fisherwood Road, G83 8SW by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Image Listing (204 Images Found)

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Balloch Station
Last stop on the line that connects Glasgow to West Dunbartonshire.
Image: © Stephen Sweeney Taken: 14 Mar 2007
0.02 miles
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Train at Balloch Station
No 320309 is named "Radio Clyde 25th Anniversary".
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 21 Aug 2010
0.02 miles
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Balloch Rail Station Platform
Balloch station opened on 24 April 1988, replacing the former Balloch Central station which was situated immediately north of a level crossing. This image was taken looking along the track towards the road bridge.
Image: © Steve Houldsworth Taken: 5 Mar 2017
0.02 miles
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Train in Balloch Station
Image: © Stephen Sweeney Taken: 10 May 2008
0.02 miles
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Dumbarton train at Balloch
Image: © Roger Cornfoot Taken: 19 Jun 2018
0.02 miles
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Balloch Railway Station
Looking back down the line towards Alexandria and Dumbarton.
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 21 Aug 2010
0.03 miles
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The berries of Bittersweet
(Solanum dulcamara, from Lat. "dulcis", sweet + "amārus", bitter.) This plant was growing at the riverbank. Bittersweet is the common name that is given in Stace's "New Flora of the British Isles", but this plant is also often referred to as Woody Nightshade. It does indeed belong to the Nightshade Family (the Solanaceae), a very diverse but economically important family that includes not just Deadly Nightshade, but also the potato, tomato, tobacco plants, and some kinds of pepper plant. "All native and most cultivated members of the nightshade family are poisonous to some degree, even when part of the plant - e.g. the fruits in the case of tomatoes and the tubers in the case of potatoes - is edible. The toxins are alkaloids, chiefly hyoscyamine, hyoscine and atropine" [Richard Mabey, "Flora Britannica"]. At times, Bittersweet is the subject of a rather unhelpful confusion: as "Flora Britannica" goes on to note, it is popularly known as Deadly Nightshade in some parts of the country; "this is not only a misidentification but a misnomer: it is one of the less poisonous members of the family". The true Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladona) is a very different plant, which produces a glossy black berry. The berries of Bittersweet, shown here, are initially green, then orange, finally becoming an attractive translucent red. While these berries are poisonous, they are considerably less so than those of Deadly Nightshade; and, as the name "Bittersweet" suggests, they are also so bitter as to be fairly unpalatable even to children, making instances of poisoning from this plant quite rare. See also Image and images linked from there.
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 17 Oct 2007
0.03 miles
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Fisherwood House, Balloch
A 1902 Arts and Crafts House by architect J J Burnett - a comptemporary of Mackintosh (Burnett also redesigned the nearby Tullichewan Hotel following a fire around 1899). This photo shows the southernmost part. Fisherwood was built as two distinct homes for a father and son local merchant in Alexandria. Fisherwood used to be the last house in Fisherwood Road before the 'new' bypass in the 1940s cast it adrift on its own.
Image: © Michael Mason Taken: 13 Sep 2006
0.03 miles
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End of the line at Balloch
At the "new" station which opened in 1988 as a replacement for Balloch Central which can be seen across Balloch Road and which was accessed via a level crossing. The Line now terminates here, but it used to run to Balloch Pier to connect with the steamer service there. Balloch Pier station closed in 1986.
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 21 Aug 2010
0.03 miles
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Balloch Railway Station
The ramp from Balloch Road to the station.
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 21 Aug 2010
0.03 miles
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