Видео

Wow! Lovely little video, beautiful scenery, and a well I've never heard of. Pardon my ignorance, and thank you for posting this.

Lovely 😊

Where exactly is this? I can't find it on a map. North side of the River Clyde near Dumbarton?

I want to come over the water and visit all your castles! Awesome stuff.

Were the clocks works not housed in the library? I remember being fascinated every time i went in for a new book on railways or model areoplanes back in the sixties.

Good guy

I remember Dalmuir Park well, but didn't know it's history. Thanks for that. Lovely place, lovely memories. What a shame that they've built these ghastly skyscrapers beside it though.

This ship yard was a farce when it built the QE2....a byword for incompetent workmanship

Nice video, like from me!

Thank you for making these short videos, total treasure

I grew up on Auchnacraig Road so played down there all the time. My folks never ever talked about this and I only found out about it relatively recently. Thanks. For all your videos👌🏼

Легендарнии Киликия 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲💣

books of a j cronin : you know ??????

nice vid ! Mich from France, fan of books of A J Cronin, about Glasgow, Dumbarton, Clyde river.....................

Words don't add anything to that event...just sadness, but we all moved on....

We stayed there as children with our parents, there was a talking bird that lived there. I showed the video to my Dad who’s now nearly 90 and he was sad about the building but enjoyed the video.

Haven’t been out at Dumbarton Castle for years due to health problems. Thanks for the tour.

I used to go fishing up the leven as a wee boy in the 60s tossing a worm on a hook wae a big sinker ...never caught a bloody thing ..but the river ..the Vale and even these auld buildings were just majic...coming from Partick and then Drumchapel....it was another world.

Papa Johnstone worked as a crane driver in a foundry that was either part of the torpedo, or supplied it.

Lovely, thanks for doing this. Good memories.

I grew up in my family home which was right beside the Antonine Wall. The top of the wall was a few yards away.

Wasn't is built by the Romans, to connect with the western end of the Antonine Wall? 🙂

What about the „dog suicide bridge“?

I done a big shite in the right hand side of the engine room in 1989. Could you check if it’s still there? It’ll be well shrivelled but it was a hefty load, so I reckon half will be there. It would be great to be reacquainted with it again

But have they stopped the underpass from regularly flooding? Aunt Wilma lived for many decades at 13 Station Rd, so College St and the underpass should have been good route onto the High St, but even when I visited just 3 years ago, the water was 2ft deep.

In the late sixties and early seventies, when they were doing their regular dynamiting at the Dumbuck quarry, Nana Hendry would run around her little Dumbarton flat screaming "THE GERMANS ARE COMING THE GERMANS ARE COMING!" We, as kids, thought this was absolutely hilarious. No one had then heard of PTSD. Some bombs intended for Clydebank fell on Dumbarton, including one that hit a tenement in the New Town ("Newton") area, just one street away from where the family lived. A woman in the tenement who hadn't gone to a shelter died, only being identified when they found her finger with the wedding ring still on it.

I see Ben Lomond has a good dusting of snow at the peak.

Walls up to eight feet thick ! What stone was used?

I was a midwife at Overton in the sixties. Amazing place. Kept fit running up and down the stairs.

Fantastic video 👍

I lived in Westerton and in the summer my parents took us on the train which ran all the way to the landward end of Balloch pier. Then the brisk walk to the steamer and on board for the sail up the loch. We used to get off and have our picnic on the lochside We would spend a few hours at the chosen place then get on the last sail back to Balloch. Can clearly remember being at Inversnaid one time when my dad suddenly said we had to rush to the pier or we would miss the boat. The picnic was flung back in the basket and off we charged. Back on the boat I used to like to stand and look at the engines with various parts shining like silver as the moved back and forward, and the smell of oil from the engine room. A great day out. We would definitely have been there in 1953 and perhaps on the first trip. Happy days.

Great video. Thank you.

I served as an apprentice, marine engineer at Barclay: Coull Scott’s new list at the top of the page too big drydocks five years of the two repair, diesels and steam turbines and all Exhile Reaz. 1978 I invented the multi-purpose same as submersible that could be built in the shipyard with the help of Scott let’s go, Harland And wolff and Cammell Laird. It was not supported by Sacha. It is nowused for deep-sea audio gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, South China, Sea, Brazil.

Can I ask how you get up there ? I usually go up to Loch Humphrey, starting at Overton House, but always looking for other routes.

My first Saturday job in there in 1963. The front windows were the canteen. The bricked up windows down the side were the stockroom.

Short, sweet and sad

Agree with your final comments!

Interesting, a branch of my family (Stoddart) came from Renton.

👍Thanks for the bit on Dumbarton Central, my favourite station when visiting.....

Great video, and I fully agree. The Co-op is a treasure and needs to be treated as such. I well remember shopping there with my grandmother, and later, by myself. It's a fabulous place. I really hope the powers that be will honour this great place and show it the respect it deserves. Thanks for making this great video.

Will need to put a visit to this location on my bucket list.

Wow, really interesting video so much in Scotland our own beautiful country we are not aware of.

Been up this castle more time's than I can recall as a child.

Well hidden, another piece of local history.

Thank you for sharing these places, managed to pop into these gardens for a visit the other day. So pretty.

You would have walked past the 3 graves by a matter of metres on your way up. Would be interesting to find out more about the fsmily buried there.

Some lovely walks to be had around there .

I do like hiking in the Kilpatricks Hills. Are you aware of the standing stones in the woods at the side of Cochno Loch?

do not bring your dogs

Thanks for the info , it’s an interesting feature for sure .