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Disposition by the Caledonian Railway Company in favour of James Jones & Sons Ltd, of Strip of Ground at Bowling; Disposition by James Jones & Sons Ltd with consent in favour of Scottish Oils Limited. First document (sewn with pink thread) records the sale by the Caledonian Railway Company of 3.154 acres of land at Bowling to James Jones & Sons Ltd. for the sum of £1261, 12 s., dated 23rd December 1918 and recorded on the 27th December the same year. The second document (sewn with blue tape) records the sale of the same piece of land by James Jones & Sons Ltd. to Scottish Oils Ltd for £1850, dated 18th & 25th October 1919 and recorded 4th November the same year. These documents are accompanied by two maps. The first is a 6 inch Ordnance Survey map of the Edition of 1920, headed Renfrewshire Sheet III SE, Dumbartonshire part of sheet XXII, showing the larger area in which the strip is situated. The second is a large cloth map headed County of Dumbarton, Parish of Old Kilpatrick, prepared by the Engineer's Office, Buchanan Street Station, Glasgow, dated 27th September 1918. It shows in red the strip of ground between the Clyde and the Forth Clyde Canal (both in blue) and the proposed road connecting it with the canal towpath. The railway lines are shown in dark blue and purple and the existing roads in buff, the whole at a scale of roughly 1:800.

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