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...

Stephen leads Olympic triumph

MISSION accomplished . . . that was the verdict of the Helensburgh man who masterminded ...

Baird achieves colour TV

By Professor Malcolm Baird, son of John Logie Baird and president of Helensburgh Heritag...

Large gathering of the clan

THE centuries-old rallying call of the Clan Colquhoun called all Colquhouns and Septs (Cow...

Visit our Photo Gallery

THE Trust Photo Gallery has 591 images in 17 different albums. More pictures will b...

Clyde Centre for sale

THE former Clyde Community Education Centre on East Clyde Street is to be put on the market by Argyll and Bute Council in the hope that it can be part of the regeneration of Hele...

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Trust

Late arrival!

THE train which arrived at Helensburgh Library in West King Street in May 2008 was a very special train which last arrived in the town round about 1890. It is a painting b...

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Heritage

Olympic gold on the Clyde

THE outstanding success of Helensburgh man Steven Park as manager of the Team Great Britain sailing team at the 2008 Beijing Games in China kept up a 100 year-old burgh connectio...

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Features

How the town began

In the “Glasgow Journal” on 11th January 1776 the following advertisement was published: “NOTICE, - To be feued immediately, for building upon, at a very reasona...

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Heritage Trust Photo Gallery

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

Next Winter Talk

The next Heritage Trust talk will be on Wednesday September 24 2008 at 7.30pm at Helensburgh LTC — John Urquhart will be talking about: Footpaths, The Long and The Short of It

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