Gourock, Inverclyde - frrom Lyle Road - 'Reliable' postcard, Glasgow pmk 1904

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Gourock from Lyle Road 
• Publisher: 'Reliable Series' 
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  Edward VII half d blue-green (the earlier shade of this issue)
• Postmark(s): Glasgow 1904 cds
• Sent to:  Miss Harris, 108 Melbourne Grove, E. Dulwich, [London] SE
• Notes / condition: has some darkening near bottom edge, a common phenomenon in this type of card

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Gourock (/ˈɡʊərək/ (listen) GOOR-ək; Scottish Gaelic: Guireag [ˈkuɾʲak]) is a town falling within the Inverclyde council area and formerly forming a burgh of the County of Renfrew in the west of Scotland. It has in the past functioned as a seaside resort on the East shore of the upper Firth of Clyde. Its principal function today, however, is as a popular residential area, extending contiguously from Greenock, with a railway terminus and ferry services across the Clyde.

The name Gourock comes from a Gaelic word for "pimple", in reference to the hill above the town.[2] As far back as 1494 it is recorded that James IV sailed from the shore at Gourock to quell the rebellious Highland clans. Two hundred years later William and Mary granted a Charter in favour of Stewart of Castlemilk which raised Gourock to a Burgh of Barony. In 1784 the lands of Gourock were purchased by Duncan Darroch, a former merchant in Jamaica. He built Gourock House near the site of the castle in what the family eventually gifted to the town as Darroch Park, later renamed by the council as Gourock Park.