Dalmuir

For the community in Canada, see Dalmuir, Alberta.

Dalmuir Scottish Gaelic: Dail Mhoire
The Dalmuir drop lock is the first of its type, allowing boats on the Forth and Clyde Canal to go under the Dumbarton Road without stopping traffic.
Dalmuir Location within West Dunbartonshire
OS grid reference	NS486711
Council area	West Dunbartonshire
Lieutenancy area	Dunbartonshire
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CLYDEBANK
Postcode district	G81
Dialling code	0141
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	West Dunbartonshire
Scottish Parliament	Clydebank and Milngavie

Dalmuir (/dælˈmjʊər/; Template:Lang-gd) is an area on the western side of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was originally a separate settlement connected to a paper mill at Duntocher Burn, however expansion eventually led to the area joining together with Clydebank, becoming part of the larger town.

Location

It is neighboured by the village of Old Kilpatrick, the Mountblow and Parkhall areas of Clydebank, as well as the town centre. It has a railway station, Dalmuir railway station, on the North Clyde Line.

Its most well-known area is Dalmuir Park, which was opened in 1906 as Overtoun Park, named after Lord Overtoun, who gifted the £5,000 required to purchase the land from Mr W P Macindoe, a descendant of William Dunn..

History

Before being annexed to the growing shipbuilding town of Clydebank, early Dalmuir was a town in its own right and host to a paper mill, which opened in 1747 on the banks of the Duntocher Burn in Dalmuir Park.

Dalmuir Park was previously the Edward Collins & Sons (also known as Edward & Richard Collins) paper mill.. Water from Duntocher Burn was diverted via Mill Lade to the High Dam to provide power to the mill's Upper Works. High Dam was converted to a duck pond.

The Mill owner, Richard Collins built Dalmuir House c 1810. The house and estate were later sold to William Dunn (1770-1849), proprietor of the Duntocher, Hardgate and Faifley spinning mills and the Dalnotter Ironworks. The house was acquired by Clydebank Burgh Council in 1908 and there were plans to accommodate a maternity hospital there in the 1920s. However, it was demolished in 1929.

The William Beardmore and Company shipbuilding and engineering works attracted a large population to settle in the area. Part of their former site has been developed for the Golden Jubilee Hospital and the accompanying Beardmore Hotel and Conference Centre.

Notable Figures

• John Baird I (1798-1859), a famous architect who worked on numerous buildings in Glasgow and around Scotland.
• Edward Collins, owner of Edward Collins & Sons paper mill opened in 1747.
• Richard Collins, Owner of Edward & Richard Collins paper mill, who constructed Dalmuir House in 1810
• Robert Currie, killed attempted to save infant child Charles Fryer on level crossing in 1907
• Robert Wilfred Scarff FRSE (1899-1970), pathologist
• Duncan Bannatyne (born 1949) is a Scottish entrepreneur, philanthropist and author
• Ian McAteer (born 1961), the former gangster
• Neil Mitchell (musician) (born 1965) keyboard player for Wet Wet Wet

Dalmuir Barclay Church

Dalmuir Barclay Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland, located in the Dalmuir area of Clydebank, a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

The first church was Dalmuir Parish Church in 1894. Initially, the congregation met in the old Masonic Hall but subsequently moved to a 500-seat hall (the "iron church") before moving again in 1903 to a new building on the corner of Dumbarton Road and Roberts Street. The next was Dalmuir West United Free Church, (later named Ross Memorial Church), which was established in 1906 and became Church of Scotland in 1929. It opened in 1915 but was destroyed during the Clydebank Blitz. A replacement was built in Kimberley Street in Mountblow in the early 1950s and renamed Dalmuir Overtoun. It united with Dalmuir Parish Church in 1976 and the old Parish Church building was acquired for the Roman Catholic Church as Our Lady of Loretto Church. Dalmuir Overtoun then united with the Old Kilpatrick Barclay in 1990 to become Dalmuir Barclay Church and a new church was built close to the site of the original Ross Memorial on Dumbarton Road, now at 1 Durban Avenue.

St Stephen's Church
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Website	St Stephen's home page
Administration
Diocese	Diocese of Glasgow
Parish	Dalmuir
Clergy
Priest(s)	Fr. Aidan Martin

St Stephen's Church

St Stephen's Church is a Roman Catholic church, established in 1907. The original church was destroyed in the Clydebank Blitz and the magnificent new structure, with its prominent bell tower, which opened on 28 September 1958, was designed by the architect Thomas Cordiner.

Schools

• Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Primary School
• St. Stephen's Catholic Primary School
• Clydemuir Primary, non-denominational