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Viewed from the air on a flight from Glasgow Prestwick International Airport to Oslo (Torp) from the starboard side of a Ryanair Boeing 737-800. Estimated height approx 28,000'. Bonded warehouses at Cambus can be seen at the extreme bottom of the shot. Alloa Inch and the adjacent glassworks can be seen near the middle of the shot. To the top, Kincardine and the crossings over the Forth can be noted.
©James T M Towill
Southward view along Broad Street towards the Forth.
©Richard Webb
Viewed from the town end [[461114]]] the building work in the far left is for the new Alloa Academy, the blue and red sign on the right is the entrance to [[352495]]
©Paul McIlroy
St Mungo's Old Kirkyard and Kilncraig Business Centre. [[459906]]
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.1km<br/>This Coalgate where it joins Mill Street.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking back towards the town from Lime Tree Walk. The spire furthest right is the former Chalmer's Church in Bank Street (now a nightclub) the next spire is St John's Episcopalian in Broad Street while the remaining two are obelisks which used to stand at the gates of the now demolished Alloa House.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking down the street from where it is crossed by Route 76 of the National Cycle Network. The industrial buildings are maltings, supplying Alloa's best known industry, brewing.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is Lime Tree Walk which was created in 1714 to link Alloa Harbour to the town. The person responsible for much of the infrastructure around Alloa in the 18th century was John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar. This view is towards the town.
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.3km<br/>Dating from the 14th century, Alloa Tower is the surviving part of the medieval residence of the Clan Erskine family, the Earls of Mar.
©JThomas
Dist:0.3km<br/>Alloa Tower dates from the fifteenth century and is the largest surviving medieval keep in Scotland. It was constructed by the Erskine family who were granted lands in this area in 1363.
©Euan Nelson
Dist:0.3km<br/>The tower was home to successive generations of the Earls of Mar.
©Darren Haddock
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking towards Clackmannan Tower
©Ian Mitchell
Dist:0.3km<br/>The tower dates from the 14th century and is the largest keep in Scotland.
©Ian Mitchell
Dist:0.3km<br/>Detail of the doorway to the 14th century tower house.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>This in Kilncraig Mills Business centre which was formed by the merging of two former textiles mills. www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/about_se/local_enterprise_companies/forthvalley/forthvalleyinitiatives/kilncraigsmill.htm
©Paul McIlroy

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