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Kirkmichael Road, HELENSBURGH, G84 7NQ

Off Old Luss Road.

At the junction with Athole Street.

A playing field and children's play park, side by side, viewed from the train on the West Highland Line.

"In memory of James Whitelaw Hamilton R.S.A., Helensburgh, born at Glasgow 26 Nov 1860, died 17 Sept 1932" (some sources give the 16th as his date of death). The artist James Whitelaw Hamilton was an associate of the Glasgow Boys, but he himself is not generally seen as being fully a part of that movement. See http://artuk.org/discover/artists/hamilton-james-whitelaw-18601932 (at ArtUK) for a selection of his works. His younger sister Margaret (Maggie) Hamilton was married to the architect Alexander Nisbet Paterson, who was responsible for Helensburgh's Image, and also, in part, for the Image, which is located nearby. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/tagged/architect:Alexander+Nisbet+Paterson for other works. It is worth noting that the couple's daughter Mary Viola Paterson was also an artist. The small bronze detail on the lower part of the memorial represents the badge of the Highland Light Infantry; the accompanying inscription commemorates James' son Arthur Leslie Hamilton, who was killed in action in Mesopotamia in 1918.

The cemetery backs onto Old Luss Road.

The view is from Image Braeholm had closed at the end of July 2016, less than three weeks before this picture was taken. The B-listed building had been employed as, amongst other things, a retirement home, and (what I most associate with it) a maternity hospital. (Under the name Braeholm, the sign says "serving the naval service since 1876", which might be a little confusing; at least, it did not sit well with my own knowledge of the building's previous use. However, that tagline does not apply to the building itself, but refers instead to the year in which the charity Aggie Weston's was founded; that organisation had been operating Braeholm in recent decades.) The building dates from about 1860. William Leiper (listed in the tags for this picture) was the architect for changes made in 1887, when a drawing room bay was added.