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Shop List
GROUND FLOOR
High Street Labels
Halo in Loch Lomond
Bags etc
Pavers Shoes
Ponden Mill
The Works
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FIRST FLOOR
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The Gallery Cafe
BASEMENT
Cars of the Stars
motor museum
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Welcome to Loch Lomond Galleries
Our impressive Grade 1 listed premises in Alexandria, the largest town in the Vale of Leven has a wide range of retail shopping units on two floors, a cafe and even have a car museum too!
LOCATION
We're close to the southernmost tip of Loch Lomond and the gateway to the Highlands, only 30 minutes from Glasgow city centre, on the former A82 main road between Glasgow and Loch Lomond. There are regular bus and train links here.
HISTORY
Constructed in 1905 to house the Argyll Motor Works, then the world's largest car factory. At the time it was considered to be an extravagant folly by competitors, but now this ornate A listed building of red sandstone and opulent marble is admired by all. When it was built, this amazing Grade A listed building was the largest motor car factory in the world. Its marble and sandstone façade, reminiscent of an Edwardian town hall or railway station, is just part of a factory that originally covered 11 acres.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, this plant was turning out more motor cars than any other factory in Europe. However, this was short lived: in 1910 only 452 were made - half of what was needed to keep the company profitable. Many fine Argyll motor cars found their way to the more prosperous south of England.
During Second World War, the building was used by the MoD for the manufacture of torpedos that were tested in nearby Lochs. After being left unused for several years it was renovated and reopened in 1997 with a six-million-pound restoration. In 2009 the building opened the Cars of the Stars Scotland motor museum.
OPENING TIMES
We open from Monday to Saturday 10am-5.00pm, Sundays 10am-4pm.
ADDRESS
Loch Lomond Galleries Shopping Centre, North Main Street, Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland G83 0UG. United Kingdom.
TELEPHONE: 01389 758145
EMAIL:
info@lochlomondgalleries.com
PARKING
There is plenty of free parking right outside Loch Lomond Galleries shopping centre for cars and even coaches just off the main road through Alexandria.
FIND US
On either YELL, MULTIMAP or GOOGLE and plan your route to come and visit.
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LATEST NEWS HEADLINES:
Cars of the Stars Scotland museum opens here today
Wednesday 7th July 2009
A new exhibition of world famous cars from movies and television has opened in the Loch Lomond Galleries in Alexandria.
Car enthusiast Peter Nelson has already built up a unique collection of famous motor vehicles from TV and film which have been on display at the original ‘Cars of the Stars’ museum in Keswick. Now he has brought his impressive range of stunning vehicles north of the border to the shores of Loch Lomond.
Peter first began collecting vehicles which had become almost as big as the stars who drove them in films or television shows thirty years ago and his collection includes Del Boy Trotter’s three wheeler van, the red and white Starsky & Hutch Ford Gran Torino, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Herbie Love Bug, the ‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean, and David Hasselhoff’s K.I.T.T Knightrider supercar and many more. These cars are all now on display in his new ‘Cars of the Stars’ museum in Alexandria, West Dumbartonshire.
The museum will open to the public on Wednesday 7th July in the Loch Lomond Galleries motor museum on North Main Street, Alexandria.
For details, phone 01389 729460 or visit www.carsofthestars-scotland.com |
