Helensburgh Heritage
Welcome to Helensburgh Heritage
WELCOME to the Helensburgh Heritage Trust website.
We hope you find it simple to navigate, with many articles, a large Photo Gallery, letters from readers, downloads, and weblinks to heritage and local organisations.
Contributions and comments are welc...
Read more...
Deborah Kerr and Helensburgh
HELENSBURGH people have long embraced Deborah Kerr as their very own film star, but the time she sp...
Comet bicentenary celebrations
HELENSBURGH Heritage Trust, very conscious of the forthcoming bicentenary of Henry Bell's Comet th...
What is on this website
THE Helensburgh Heritage Trust website has four main areas . . . Latest News, Heritage items, Trus...
Visit our Photo Gallery
THE Helensburgh Heritage Trust Photo Gallery has 1,256 images in 21 different albums. To find a pa...
Comet Bicentenary website launched
THE Comet Bicentenary Committee this week launched a website about Henry Bell's Comet, and how the bicentenary this year will be celebrated.
Patronage on grand scale
"Surely this is a spelling mistake?" That was the reaction of many people when they saw the title of the talk which Simon Green of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland gave to Helensburgh Heritage Trust on Wednesday January 25. However, it was no mistake!
Arrochar butcher was German prisoner
AN ARROCHAR village butcher was a World War Two German prisoner of war from 1943-45.
Helensburgh's Prime Minister
HELENSBURGH has always prided itself that a Prime Minister came from the burgh, despite the fact that he is known as “The Unknown Prime Minister”.
Trust Photo Gallery
View this photo and over 1,200 more at the Heritage Trust Photo Gallery. Visit the gallery.
Next winter talk
The next winter talk is on Wednesday February 29 at 7.30pm at Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club, when Trust member John Ashworth OBE, formerly of Chivas Brothers, will talk about the drinks industries. Non-members most welcome.
Winter Talks 2011-12
- Wednesday September 28 2011 — Michael Davis: Castle Restorations.
- Wednesday October 26 — AGM; Stewart Noble: The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire, part two.
- Wednesday November 30 — Joyce Steele: The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and their links with the Helensburgh area.
- Wednesday January 25 2012 — Simon Green, RCAHMS: The Butefying of Scotland; the architectural and archaeological patronage of the 3rd and 4th Marquesses of Bute.
- Wednesday February 29 — John Ashworth: The Drinks Industries.
- Wednesday March 28 — Jim Grant: The Scottish Maritime Museum.
at 7.30pm
Downloads
Statistics
Members : 1Content : 558
Web Links : 97
Content View Hits : 800545
Charity Number
HELENSBURGH HERITAGE TRUST
Scottish Charity
No SC 024603