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Search for oldest TV
HELENSBURGH-born John Logie Baird changed the world by inventing the television set . . ...
Anderson Trust cards on sale
THE Anderson Trust has just launched a set of three cards of prints from the Trust colle...
Stephen led Olympic triumph
MISSION accomplished . . . that was the verdict of the Helensburgh man who masterminded ...
Visit our Photo Gallery
THE Trust Photo Gallery has 710 images in 20 different albums — including one spot...Search for Auden poems
HELENSBURGH is the focal point of a search for missing verse from one of the greatest 20th-century poets.
The world's leading authority on W.H.Auden (left) has launched a hu... 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... Film director wins BAFTA
A GARELOCHHEAD man was named top director at the 2008 Scottish BAFTAs.
Kenneth Glenaan, better known locally as Kenneth Grant, won the coveted prize for his film Summer, whi... 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... 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 November 26 2008 at 7.30pm at Helensburgh LTC — Marion Gillies will talk about: Tales and Scenes of the West Coast.
The picture is of the paddle steamer Lucy Ashton.
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
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