Helensburgh Heritage

Welcome to Helensburgh Heritage

WELCOME to the new look Helensburgh Heritage Trust website. We hope you will find it easier to navigate, with the articles easy to read and well illustrated. ... Read more...

Kirk closes Clyde View

Full story in the Religion section of this website. ...

Visit our Photo Gallery

THE Trust Photo Gallery has 577 images in 17 different albums. More pictures will b...

Late arrival!

THE train recently arrived at Helensburgh Library in West King Street is a very specia...

Villa on sale at million and a half

ONE of Helensburgh’s most splendid mansions, Lynton at 6 Upper Colquhoun Street, is ...

Old Burgh manuscript found

A REMARKABLE relic of Helensburgh of days gone by has been unearthed by James Brown FSA Scot, a historical researcher based in Ayrshire. It is a manuscript volume dated 1822...

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Trust

Helensburgh Station Bench

A HEAVY piece of the history of Helensburgh Central Station was returned to the station in May 2008 . . . thanks to Helensburgh Heritage Trust. When the Church of S...

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Heritage

From Shandon to Ryder Cup

ONE of the best known and most liked sportsmen to emerge from the Helensburgh area was Ryder Cup golfer Tom Haliburton. Tom was born in Ardencaple Cottage, Rhu, and lived th...

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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 — 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