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 spe...
Henry Bell and the Comet
2012 was the year of the bicentenary of Henry Bell's Comet steamship, and the Comet Bicentenary Comm...
What is on this website
THE Helensburgh Heritage Trust website has four main areas containing over 960 articles.
These includ...
Visit our Photo Gallery
THE Helensburgh Heritage Trust Photo Gallery has 1,814 images in 22 different albums. To find a particu...
New session — new venue
HELENSBURGH Heritage Trust moves to a new venue for the first open meeting of the winter session on Wednesday (September 28).
Handover ends bicentenary project
A SILHOUETTE of Henry Bell’s Comet which stands beside the car park of the Waitrose store at Colgrain was formally presented by Helensburgh Heritage Trust to the store on Wednesday August 31.
Burgh man captains R and A
A GOLFER from Helensburgh got up early one morning to be at the golf course for 8am to drive off from the first tee down the fairway . . .
Rosneath's Princess
HER Royal Highness Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, had a huge impact on Helensburgh and Garelochside, where she lived in Rosneath Castle and loved the beauty and quietness of the Gareloch.
Trust Photo Gallery
View this photo and over 1,750 more at the Heritage Trust Photo Gallery. Visit the gallery.
Next Open Meeting
The next Open Meeting will be on Wednesday October 26 at 7.30pm prompt at Helensburgh Civic Centre, East Clyde Street. After the AGM, the Rev David Clark will talk about 100 years of the BB in Helensburgh.
The Heritage Centre
Visit Helensburgh Heritage Trust’s Heritage Centre at Helensburgh Library during library opening hours: Monday 1-8pm; Tuesday 9.30am-1pm, 2-5pm; Wednesday 9.30am-1pm, 2-5pm; Thursday 1-8pm; Friday 1-5pm; Saturday 9.30am-1pm, 2-5pm.
Further exhibits in the Community Area at Helensburgh Civic Centre, East Clyde Street.
Heritage Trust storage sponsored by R.B.Steel Ltd.
Winter Talks 2016-17
- Wednesday September 28 2016 — Ewan Kennedy: The Leiper Legacy
- Wednesday October 26 — AGM; then The Rev David Clark: Helensburgh Boys Brigade Centenary
- Wednesday November 30 — Ian MacEachern: The Luss Slate Quarries
- Wednesday January 25 2017 — Bill Anderson: The Anderson (Local Collection) Trust
- Wednesday February 22 — Dan Atkinson: The Samphire Project — marine archaeology in Argyll
- Wednesday March 29 — Professor John Hume: West Dunbartonshire Churches and their history
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