Layered site
Castle Hill
Castle, settlement, museum landscape, wartime traces and later erasure all on one hill.
What Lost Dunoon is for
Some places have gone completely. Others still exist physically but have lost their original purpose, name, or meaning. Lost Dunoon gathers those layers into one place and gives them a method: page, map, source, memory.
The site works best when you move between entries, Grid Ghosts, and local recollection. Read the page, compare the older OS sheet, then test what the landscape still shows.
Featured paths into the town
Start with the places that explain Dunoon best.
Lost resort culture
West Bay and the Lido
Holiday Dunoon, bathing culture, shoreline leisure, and the thinning of the seafront.
Hidden infrastructure
Bishop’s Glen
Three reservoirs once fed the town. Most people now see scenery before engineering.
Entries
Search the site or filter by category. Every card states what remains now.
Map Room
Approximate starter pins for the current entry set. Use this as an orientation tool, then verify with historic maps and source material.
Pins are approximate. Fine-grain checking should be done against NLS historic maps, council layers, and title or place evidence where needed.
Photo hunt
Priority places where one strong historic image would immediately improve the entry.
Starter sitemap
A fuller site map for later expansion, beyond the pages already seeded here.
Memory wall
The archive improves when local people add precise recollections, family names, approximate dates, and old photos. This is where memory becomes evidence rather than atmosphere.
Research Desk
The three core tools behind the site: council mapping, historic OS comparison, and title search.
Core sources used in this build
Castle House Museum
Castle Gardens history, wider Dunoon context, and museum-led local interpretation.
Argyll and Bute Council guide to Bishop’s Glen
Three-reservoir history, older naming, and surviving waterworks traces.
Forgotten Greens
Defunct or relocated golf history in and around Dunoon.
Local-history and map sources
Historic OS mapping, shoreline material, postcard evidence, and comparative map reading.