Queen Elizabeth II will live on in the memory of many Dumbarton locals, when she visited the area back in 1953 and 1965 alongside her husband Prince Philip.

We took a trip back down memory lane to uncover photographs from the Queen and Prince Philip's visit to the Vale of Leven Hospital, and a video of the royal pair visiting Dumbarton Castle in the early 50s.

In 1953, a royal trip was made to Dumbarton Castle by train, where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were met by 5,000 children at Dumbarton East station.

The Queen visited an industrial estate, talked with workers and planted a Scots pine in the grounds, before visiting the castle.

She was the first monach to arrive in Dumbarton since Queen Victoria in 1847.

And back in 2015, Gordon Robertson from Aberdeenshire was browsing through an antiques store in Blairgowrie in Perthshire when he stumbled across a box of fifty 35mm slides and decided to buy them instead of leaving them to gather dust in the shop.

On opening up the box, the 58-year-old was shocked to discover the slides featured dozens of nurses and what appeared to be the Queen on a visit to Vale of Leven Hospital.

The Queen visited West Dunbartonshire with the Duke of Edinburgh on June 28, 1965 to open the new £800,000 county buildings.

After disembarking from the Royal Yacht Britannia, Her Majesty and the Duke visited the Singer Factory, Dumbarton Municipal Chambers and Dumbarton Common before leaving for the county council offices.

In the afternoon they cruised around Loch Lomond on the Maid of the Loch paddle steamer, before visiting Vale of Leven hospital and Helensburgh Municipal Chambers.

The Queen was born on April 21, 1926 in London, and died peacefully on September 8, 2022 at Balmoral Castle.