A FORMER pupil of Helensburgh's Lomond School, Lee Bisset, is now one of Britain’s established opera and concert singers.
Daughter of Jack and Jennifer Bisset from Inverbeg on Loch Lomondside, Lee studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, in Italy and at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 05 June 2011 11:01 )
A HELENSBURGH man drew on his upbringing in the town when working on the film which won him a BAFTA in November 2006.
Writer and director Martin Smith, a former Hermitage Primary and Hermitage Academy pupil says that he was thrilled to accept the Russell Hunter Award for Best Short Film at the BAFTA Scotland awards ceremony in Glasgow for ‘Tracks’.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:24 )
ONE of the most popular songs sung by a well known Helensburgh singer was "It's a sin to live a lie". But 'boy singer' Master Joe Petersen did just that for most of her life.
Master Joe, as he was known, was in fact burgh girl Mary O'Rourke, who also appeared under the names of Master Wilfred Eaton and Michael Dawnay.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:26 )
A HELENSBURGH woman who died in 2005 made a huge impact on both professional and amateur drama in Scotland.
Formerly the proprietor of the Bookworms book shop in East Clyde Street, Ros Lane was also for many years an editor and presenter of the local talking newspaper for the blind and otherwise visually handicapped, Headline Helensburgh.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:27 )
A HELENSBURGH man who for many years was instrumental in selling other people's books to townsfolk is now hoping that they will buy his new book.
Terry Lane has written the biography of the doyen of the small theatre movement he always wanted to write, “The Full Round — the several lives and theatrical legacy of Stephen Joseph”, and it is available at the shop he founded, Bookworms in East Clyde Street.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:41 )
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The first 2013-14 winter talk is on Wednesday September 25 at 7.30pm at Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club, when Joe Brown will talk about the historic Ferry Inn at Rosneath. Non-members are most welcome.
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