Helensburgh Heritage
Welcome to Helensburgh Heritage
WELCOME to the Helensburgh Heritage Trust website.
We hope you find it simple to navigate, with many articles, a large Photo Gallery, letters from readers, downloads, and weblinks to heritage and local organisations.
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Deborah Kerr and Helensburgh
HELENSBURGH people have long embraced Deborah Kerr as their very own film star, but the time she sp...
Comet bicentenary celebrations
HELENSBURGH Heritage Trust, very conscious of the forthcoming bicentenary of Henry Bell's Comet th...
What is on this website
THE Helensburgh Heritage Trust website has four main areas . . . Latest News, Heritage items, Trus...
Visit our Photo Gallery
THE Helensburgh Heritage Trust Photo Gallery has 1,255 images in 21 different albums. To find a pa...
Burgh writers contribute to new book
TWO Helensburgh writers have contributed to a new book published by Clydebank Life Story Group.
Argylls history described
THE history of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was described in an illustrated talk given to Helensburgh Heritage Trust's final open meeting of 2011 by Joyce Steele on Wednesday November 30.
Twenty drowned in Rosneath disaster
ONE of the Firth of Clyde’s worst disasters took place in 1947 when an open pleasure boat sank off Rosneath Point, and twenty men, women and children were drowned and only three were saved.
Helensburgh's Prime Minister
HELENSBURGH has always prided itself that a Prime Minister came from the burgh, despite the fact that he is known as “The Unknown Prime Minister”.
Trust Photo Gallery
View this photo and over 1,200 more at the Heritage Trust Photo Gallery. Visit the gallery.
Next winter talk
The next winter talk is on Wednesday February 29 at 7.30pm at Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club, when Trust member John Ashworth OBE, formerly of Chivas Brothers, will talk about the drinks industries. Non-members most welcome.
Winter Talks 2011-12
- Wednesday September 28 2011 — Michael Davis: Castle Restorations.
- Wednesday October 26 — AGM; Stewart Noble: The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire, part two.
- Wednesday November 30 — Joyce Steele: The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and their links with the Helensburgh area.
- Wednesday January 25 2012 — Simon Green, RCAHMS: The Butefying of Scotland; the architectural and archaeological patronage of the 3rd and 4th Marquesses of Bute.
- Wednesday February 29 — John Ashworth: The Drinks Industries.
- Wednesday March 28 — Jim Grant: The Scottish Maritime Museum.
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HELENSBURGH HERITAGE TRUST
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