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AN American author who spent 18 years researching and writing the story of a man from a Glen Fruin farming family who became a Mormon in 1848, emigrated to America six years later, then fled from his religion, visited the glen in October 2010.
Historian Polly Aird, who lives in Seattle, Washington, wrote ‘Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector, A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-61' about her great great uncle Peter McAuslan and his wife Agnes.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 October 2010 11:08 )
Read more...RETIRED local newspaper editor Robin Bird, who is writing his second book about the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Helensburgh, Rhu and Glen Fruin, visited the district in August 2010.
Robin, whose late father Bob was a photographer at the MAEE, also known as RAF Helensburgh, when it was in the district during World War Two, is the man who has lifted the veil of secrecy about the establishment in recent years.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 October 2010 18:25 )
Read more...HELENSBURGH’S iconic film star Deborah Kerr, who died in 2007, is once again the focus of media attention this autumn.
She is the subject of a retrospective at the British Film Institute on London‘s Southbank in partnership with the Independent newspaper from September 1 to October 13, and a new biography will be published on October 20.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 18 September 2010 09:26 )
Read more...THIS Helensburgh Heritage Trust website attracts many inquiries from abroad — usually about family history.
One email inquiry early in 2010 came from Karen Ondrasek, a financial controller in Dayton, Ohio, and in early August she took it a step further by coming to stay for two nights at Rhu’s Rosslea Hall Hotel as she researched her roots.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 February 2011 10:19 )
Read more...HELENSBURGH-born actress Morven Christie was the reader for episode 3 of the BBC Radio 4 programme Opening Lines on Thursday August 19 2010.
Opening Lines gives emerging short-story writers their radio debut, and Morven read the final story in this series, 'Kiss' by Heather Reid.
Last Updated ( Monday, 23 August 2010 14:44 )
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A RHU house occupied for five years by the son of publisher Walter W.Blackie — who 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. It was bought by Walter G.Blackie in January 1941, and he and his family lived there until 1945 when they moved to Auchengower, James Street, Helensburgh.
Last Updated ( Friday, 17 August 2012 12:12 )
Read more...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.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 September 2010 18:19 )
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The 2014-15 series of Winter Talks begins on Wednesday September 24 2014 at 7.30pm in the upstairs meeting room at Helensburgh Tennis Club with a talk on the heritage aspects of the CHORD project in Colquhoun Square, Helensburgh.
Non-members are always welcome, and tea and coffee is served at the end of the meeting.
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