Anyone know about Strone Villa?

[doddsie4]

     An ancestor of mine was a nurse at Strone Villa in the Gourock area.     She is on the 1911 Census as a Nurse, although she was actually a qualified midwife.    I am trying to find out what kind of place Strone Villa was.    Head of the house in 1911 was a David Arthur, 80, a retired Manufacturing Chemist, a daughter living with him along with two baby grandsons. 

     Would like to know the address of this Strone Villa and if it still exists.    Is "Strone" the name of a district at Gourock?     

[MonicaL]

Doddsie, it shows on the 1905 Valuation Rolls as:

David ARTHUR
Proprietor Occupier
HOUSE STRONE BRAE
   
GREENOCK
   
1905 - VR003600061-

Monica

[stanmapstone]

You can see Strone Villa  Kilmalcolm Road on this 1975 map https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/228573/674738/13/100765
There are earlier maps listed.
Also on this map https://maps.nls.uk/view/82900269#zoom=4&lat=7288&lon=6234&layers=BT
Stan

[stanmapstone]

Now called Strone Farm Google Street View https://goo.gl/maps/iXkG1yF3W1Q2

Stan

[doddsie4]

       Stanmapstone, 
                              Your maps clarify it.      I did have a note saying that the Strone Villa I was looking for was near Kilmacolm Road, so that settles it.      ...There seems to be a Strone on the Cowal Peninsula, Argyll & Bute, and when I tried googles for Strone, I was getting a confusing mixture of information about Strone in Argyll & Bute and Strone in Greenock.    In fact, I had seen a photo of an imposing looking building named Strone that looked very like a castle, and thought for a minute that might be it.      But it was across the water from Greenock.

        It seems that the Strone Villa in Greenock is a much more modest place than a castle.

       Monica,
                   Many thanks for the info about David Arthur at Strone Brae in 1905.     Useful information.

       

 

       

[stanmapstone]

From the Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette - Saturday 27 December 1902

[elaine447]

Hi Doddsie4
if you google Auchmountain laundry Greenock then scroll down to images there is a picture of Auchmountain Laundry, sadly not the building it looks like an advertiment poster  the building wont exist now this area has went through a lot of changes over the years
Elaine

[stanmapstone]

You can see the laundry on this map https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/228731/674846/12/100529
It is not shown on the 1938 map.

Stan