I have to hold my hands up, we've let you down a bit in recent times. The site hasn't been updated and to be truthful, it has looked a bit in need of some TLC. This should change! Our webmaster, Jim Chestnut, met with Stewart Noble and me today, to give us a crash course in updating and maintaining the site.

Some of the changes you should notice immediately. Others including improving the search terms for Google (other search engines are available!), will be ongoing but will take a bit longer.

Robert Ryan (Chairman Helensburgh Heritage Trust)

Wednesday 27th March 2024 at 7.30pm
Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre
38 East Clyde Street
Helensburgh G84 7PG

At Helensburgh the twenty-seventh day of July eighteen hundred and thirty-three, at eight  o'clock AM being the time fixed for ascertaining and going along the Boundary lines of the Burgh specified in the charter and fixing in proper places Boundary stones in order that the Boundaries may be known in time coming.

AFTER 55 years of service to the people of Helensburgh and district, the Church of Scotland’s Clyde View Eventide Home closed its doors.

Many elderly members of the community were residents at Clyde View, including several centenarians, and the final residents were transferred to other local homes.

THE sad event of 8 September 2022 has set me thinking back to the Queen’s Accession on 6 February 1952.

A FOLK singer who came to live in Helensburgh 2007 is famous throughout Scotland and has been described as having ‘a God given voice that knocks you sideways’.

AN internationally respected scientist who was one of the last surviving people who served at wartime RAF Helensburgh, Professor John Allen, died on October 25 2019 at the age of 98.

News of his death at Halesworth, Suffolk, came from Mrs Frances McLaren, nee Shedden, who served alongside John at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Rhu and Helensburgh during World War Two.

THE B-20 was a revolutionary World War Two flying boat about to be put through its paces by RAF Helensburgh before it was granted the airworthy certificate to allow full production.

But tragically the Dumbarton-developed aircraft never arrived at the Gareloch base.

A LEADING Helensburgh businessman of the 1980s and 90s was lucky to survive on board a ship which was torpedoed during World War Two.

Footballer and athlete Jack Quinlan went on to run several local businesses in the district and was very well known for his charitable work.

Richard De’Ath           

 (1927 – 2011)

Richard De’Ath was a successful and highly respected Glasgow architect who lived for most of his working life in Helensburgh. He was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, but grew up in Paisley, where his father was a chief chemist at J&P Coats. 

William Daniell, RA
(1769 – 1837)

Portrait of William Daniell

by Richard Westall, drawing master