Leaving the shores of the Loch we headed back south and stopped off in Alexandria. (We had only driven a few miles, it was still cool, and grey... so GF surmised this was a Scottish town, rather than the Egyptian city.)

Alexandria now boasts a "Factory Outlet" centre. This is unremarkable in its own right; indeed the stores therein had little in their favour. What was worthy of a mention, however, was the building in which they were housed. (Stupidly, the GF forgot to take a photo).

They building is the remaining frontage of the Argyll Motor Works, built in 1905 and once covering 60 acres. At one stage it was churning out 800 cars per year. As times changed in became a munitions factory, a Royal Naval Torpedo factory, and finished its industrial life as a textile factory. Little remains of the site, other than the brownstone frontage and the magnificent marbled lobby and sweeping staircase.

[File under: Loch Lomond]