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However, Oban did not have a town house, [3] until the police commissioners decided to procure one to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The site they selected was on the northwest side of Albany Street. [4] The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the provost, Francis Cooper, on 22 June 1897. [5]
The site they selected was on the southeast side of Albany Street. [4] The building was designed by David MacKintosh in the Italianate style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1889. [5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Albany Street.
Name Location Date Listed Grid Ref. [note 1] Geo-coordinates Notes LB Number [note 2] Image Albany Street, Sheriff Court-House: Category B 38801: 6-14 (Even Nos) Alma Crescent
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A number of ScotRail trains run between Oban railway station and Glasgow Queen Street daily. The town is an important ferry port: it is Caledonian MacBrayne 's busiest terminal. Oban is known as the "Gateway to the Isles", [ 39 ] with ferries sailing to the islands of Lismore , Colonsay , Islay , Coll , Tiree , to Craignure on Mull , to ...
McCaig's Tower [1] or McCaig's Folly [2] is a prominent tower on Battery Hill [3] overlooking the town of Oban in Argyll, Scotland. It is built of Bonawe granite taken from the quarries across Airds Bay, on Loch Etive, from Muckairn, with a circumference of about 200 metres (660 ft) with two-tiers of 94 lancet arches (44 on the bottom and 50 on ...
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