HELENSBURGH TV inventor John Logie Baird could be featured on a new coin to be issued by the Royal Mint — if enough people voted for him online.

He faced stiff competition from Jane Austen, Douglas Bader, Sir Walter Raleigh, Emmeline Pankhurt and John Lennon to become the next Great Briton, which, when chosen, will feature on a coin to be struck by the Royal Mint and made available later in the year.

A RHU house built in 1936 by publisher Walter Blackie — who also commissioned the building of Hill House in Helensburgh by Charles Rennie MacKintosh — has been put up for sale.

Offers over £495,000 are being invited for The Moss in Pier Road by agents Rettie & Co. of 147 Bath Street, Glasgow. The publisher built it for his son.

THE Glasgow Boys exhibition on view in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum — which features works painted around the Helensburgh area and by local artists — has been well attended and highly acclaimed. But the gender balance was redressed! 

An exhibition of paintings, decorative and applied art by the Glasgow Girls (1890–1930) opened in Kirkcudbright Town Hall on Saturday July 3 and ran until the end of August.