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Welcome to Helensburgh Heritage

Welcome to Helensburgh Heritage

WELCOME to the Helensburgh Heritage Trust website. We hope you will find it simple to navigate, with the articles easy to read and well illustrated. ... Read more...
Homecoming Year 2009

Homecoming Year 2009

THIS year, 2009, is Scotland’s first ever Homecoming year. Inspired by the 25...
Search for oldest TV

Search for oldest TV

HELENSBURGH-born John Logie Baird changed the world by inventing the television set . . ...
Anderson Trust cards on sale

Anderson Trust cards on sale

THE Anderson Trust launched a set of three cards of prints from the Trust collection in ...
Visit our Photo Gallery

Visit our Photo Gallery

THE Trust Photo Gallery has 735 images in 20 different albums — including one spot...
 

Stephen Park wins OBE

Stephen Park wins OBE HELENSBURGH man Stephen Park, manager of the British Olympic sailing team at Beijing, is to receive the OBE. The award, announced in the New Year's Honours List and one of ...
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Trust buys relic of old school

Trust buys relic of old school IN the week that the new Hermitage Academy at Colgrain was officially opened on June 4 2008, a book about a much older Helensburgh school came to light — and now it has bee...
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Leading singer comes home

Leading singer comes home A VERY well known singer who spent much of her childhood in Helensburgh is returning to the burgh for a concert in January 2009 . . . 25 years on from when she won several major ...
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Slavery abolitionist from Cardross

Slavery abolitionist from Cardross ONE of the most important figures in the fight to abolish slavery spent most of his childhood in Cardross and was educated in Helensburgh. Zachary Macaulay, whose father was...
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Heritage Trust Photo Gallery

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View this photograph and many more at the Heritage Trust Photo Gallery. Visit the gallery

Next Winter Talk

masterjoepetersen.jpgThe next Heritage Trust open meeting will be Wednesday January 28 at 7.30pm at Helensburgh LTC, and will be a 'Helensburgh Memorabilia Night', when members are asked to bring items of interest.

The picture is of a cd of songs by 'Master Joe Petersen' — actually Helensburgh girl Mary O'Rourke.

Winter Talks

  • September 24 2008 — John Urquhart: Footpaths, The Long and The Short of It
  • October 29 — AGM at 7 pm; Robert Watson: History of Dumbarton Castle and Other Tales
  • November 26 — Marion Gillies: Tales and Scenes of the West Coast
  • January 28 2009 — Helensburgh Memorabilia Night
  • February 25 — Dennis Royal: Americans at Rosneath in World War Two
  • March 25 — Dr Douglas Brown: Images Across Space . . . Looking at Personalities and Technologies in the Baird Television Company
HELENSBURGH HERITAGE TRUST
Scottish Charity
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