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Old Photograph Dunmore Street Balfron Scotland
Old photograph of cottages, houses, Bus and people on Dunmore Street in Balfron located 18 miles West of Stirling, Scotland. Although a rural settlement, it lies within commuting distance of Glasgow, and serves as a dormitory village. The name means, village of mourning, in Gaelic. This originates from a legend that the village was attacked by wolves, which stole children out of their homes. In 1789, when Robert Dunmore built Ballindalloch Cotton Works he expanded the settlement from a hamlet of around 50 people to a bustling Industrial Revolution planned village with a population of almost 1,000 within a year. As the cotton boom began to fail, the arrival of the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway transformed Balfron into a popular holiday resort.
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