Levenbank Print Works
Location type
WorksName and dates
Levenbank Print Works (1784-1939)Served by the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway.
Description
This was a large print works opened by Watson, Arthur and Co on the east bank of the River Leven at Jamestown, just south of Balloch. (Also known as Levenbank Dye Works.) The print works was served by sidings from the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway in the extreme south of the site. Approach to these sidings, on the north side of the line, was from the west, over the Jamestown Viaduct [Balloch]. Jamestown station was just to the east over Main Street.
The works, bought by Archibald Orr Ewing & Co in 1845, became one of the United Turkey Red Dye Company sites.
The works closed around 1939 and the site is now housing.
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Print worksAliases
Levenbank Dye Works| Nearby stations Jamestown Balloch Balloch [1st] Alexandria Balloch Pier Renton Caldarvan Dalreoch Dumbarton Central Dumbarton East Cardross Langbank Craigendoran Upper Craigendoran Craigendoran Pier | Jamestown Viaduct [Balloch] Croftengea Siding Milton Works (Dyeing) [Riverside] Milton Works (Dyeing) Levenfield Works Forth and Clyde Junction [Balloch] Alexandria Works (Printing and dyeing) Lomond Galleries Balloch Shed Gas Works (Vale of Leven Gas Co) Dalmonach Print Works Loch Lomond Factory (Silk Dyeing) Tourist/other Loch Lomond Distillery Croftengea Signal Box Broomley House |
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Books
 The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos) |
