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The name presumably refers to the long-gone St Mary's Collegiate Church, of which the most conspicuous relic is NS3975 : The College Bow.

Despite the area's changing beyond recognition in the meantime, there is a certain continuity in that there was a St Mary's Way hereabouts even before the first OS maps of the area were made in c.1860; see the description for NS4075 : Dumbarton Free High Church. The church described there as opening in 1843 was located on St Mary's Way; it stood at NS39627531, about 80 metres WSW of the point from which this picture was taken.

A memorial that originally stood just outside the front (the SSW side) of that church does survive, but in a quite different location inside (and not far from the main entrance of) Dumbarton Cemetery: NS4075 : Memorial of Daniel McAusland.

Returning to what can be seen in the picture: the Denny Civic Theatre is the large dark building on the left. Across the road from it is a bowling green (Dumbarton Bowling Club). A large building, seen from the rear in the right background, is what was once a cinema, and then (until recently, when it succumbed to the pressures of the virus-related lockdown affecting the country), a bingo hall. Further away, just left of centre, are the Risk Street flats, which had recently been renovated: NS3975 : Risk Street flats after improvement.