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Dalmoak Road, GREENOCK, PA15 3AE

The B788 road, climbing through the east end of Greenock.

Shandon Place is in the foreground, off Kilmacolm Road.

Not far ahead, the name of the road changes to Image

At the east end of Cardross Crescent.

The school buildings were last used by Overton Primary School as a temporary measure during reconstruction work at Overton.

Looking over the east end of Greenock, with part of James Watt Dock visible in the lower right corner, with Victoria Harbour, East India Harbour and Greenock Ocean Terminal beyond. Kempock Point at the far side of Gourock Bay is prominent, with the tip of the Rosneath peninsula opposite in the top right corner.

For an earlier picture, showing the cleared site of the Primary School, see Image Another two earlier pictures, Image and Image, show the approach road. The present picture shows a six-bed children's residential unit under construction on that cleared site. It will replace an existing facility in Greenock's Neil Street. For progress nine months later, see Image Both of those views are from Auchmountain Road.

The view is from Auchmountain Road. Image, from 2014, shows the cleared former site of the school. Image shows an earlier stage of construction; it was taken exactly nine months before the present picture. As noted at the second of those links, the facility under construction here will replace an existing one in Greenock's Neil Street.

Looking towards the site of the former King's Glen Primary School.

The name of the road changes at the section shown here; ahead, it is known as Image [The name Auchmountain has its origins in the farmstead of Achmugdon, which is shown on Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1740s-50s). On John Ainslie's 1796 map of Renfrewshire, it is called Aughmugton. By the time of the earliest OS maps (1850s), the name has become Auchmountain. The farm was located alongside the Craigieknowe Burn, at Image; according to OS map evidence, it disappeared in the 1920s or 1930s as a result of housing developments. See also Image] Greenock also had an Auchmountain Shipping Company. The firm launched a barque called "Auchmountain" in 1892. Unfortunately, on its maiden voyage, while the vessel was moored near the entrance of the Gare Loch, and after twenty tons of gunpowder had been loaded into the rear hold, a fire broke out. The crew (and an alarmed stowaway) all escaped safely. The captain and some of the crew later returned to throw as much of the gunpowder overboard as they could, but they had to withdraw when they realised that they were running out of time. When the inevitable explosion occurred, in the early hours of the morning, it blew out hundreds of windows in Greenock, Gourock and Dumbarton. The inhabitants of Pollokshaws (which is over twenty miles away, and a considerable distance inland, on the south side of Glasgow) thought that a small earthquake had occurred. See the book "Clyde Shipwrecks" (1988, Peter Moir and Ian Crawford) for full details. The Auchmountain Shipping Company went into liquidation soon afterwards.