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Helensburgh Seafront1149 viewsCrowds enjoy the seafront at the West Esplanade, circa 1925.
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Colquhoun Square1145 viewsA green Garelochhead Coach Services bus is at the bus stop on a sunny morning in Helensburgh's Colquhoun Square. Image circa 1970.
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Mirror on the moor1144 viewsAn old image of a pond on the moor above Helensburgh, published by M.C.Robertson, West Clyde Street. Image circa 1921. The pond is still there today, on the third hole of Helensburgh Golf Club.
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View from pier1138 viewsA view of West Clyde Street from Helensburgh pier. Image date unknown.
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West Esplanade1138 viewsA sunny day on Helensburgh seafront at the foot of William Street, when the esplanade was fenced off from West Clyde Street. Image circa 1903.
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Lower Sinclair Street1138 viewsLooking north up Sinclair Street, Helensburgh, from Clyde Street. The shop on the right is John Mitchell, wine merchant and grocer. Image by D.R.McCulloch, 62 West Clyde Street, date unknown.
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Hermitage House1137 viewsOriginally the home of the Cramb family, who sold what was then called Cramb Park to the Town Council in 1911 for £3,750, Hermitage House became an annexe to Hermitage School after World War One service as a military hospital. After 1926 it became a council workshop and store, and it was eventually demolished in 1963. Image by courtesy of Helensburgh Library; date unknown.
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Seafront with rails1135 viewsA traditional view of Helensburgh seafront looking east towards the Henry Bell monument, the bandstand beyond, and the Old Parish Church, taken when there were still railings between the pavement and the grass, and published by M.C.Robertson, West End Library, Helensburgh, circa 1906.
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Kidston Park Bandstand1131 viewsAn illustration from the front of a Christmas card looking east towards the now demolished bandstand in Kidston Park, circa 1902. Bought from the Duke of Argyll in 1877 for £650 by William Kidston with help from Sir James Colquhoun and others, Kidston Park was formerly named Cairndhu Point — known locally as Neddy's Point after a well known fisherman and ferryman who lived nearby — but was renamed Kidston Park from 1889 when Mr Kidston left money to support its maintenance.
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East Bay shelter1127 viewsThe East Bay shelter used to provide a welcome place for coach parties visiting Helensburgh to have tea and look out at the Clyde. It was later taken over by a firm of architects as an office. When it was decided to demolish it in the 1980s a campaign to save it was unsuccessful. Image by Stewart Noble.
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East Bay and Queen's Hotel1122 viewsA 1903 image of Helensburgh's East Bay, with the Queen's Hotel on the right. It was originally Baths House, built by Henry Bell, who built Europe's first commercial steamship the Comet in 1812. The building has had many alterations but still stands on East Clyde Street, having been converted into flats.
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Seafront bandstand1121 viewsA 1910 image of the bandstand on Helensburgh's West Esplanade, with the Granary building and the Old Parish Church beyond.
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