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 1,100 articles.&nbs...
Visit our Photo Gallery
THE Helensburgh Heritage Trust Photo Gallery has 1,925 images in 22 different albums. To find a particu...
Anne Paterson Wallace (1923-2018)
HELENSBURGH Heritage Trust and the Anderson (Local Collection) Trust record with regret the death of a descendant of the well-known Paterson family.
Focus on Rosneath Peninsula
A BRIEF illustrated history of the Rosneath Peninsula was the topic at Helensburgh Heritage Trust’s final 2017-18 winter open meeting in Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre on Wednesday March 28.
Officer died from dogfight wounds
A YOUNG Helensburgh flyer — whose father became the town’s Provost — lost his life in a World War One dogfight in northern France just weeks after becoming engaged.
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 1,900 more at the Heritage Trust Photo Gallery. Visit the gallery.
2018-19 Open Meetings
A new programme of Winter Open Meetings begins at Helensburgh Civic Centre at 7.30pm on Wednesday September 26 with a talk by Bruce Jamieson on developing the Mackintosh Club.
The Heritage Centre
Visit Helensburgh Heritage Trust’s Heritage Centre at Helensburgh Library during library opening hours: Monday 1-8pm; Tuesday 9.30am-5pm; Wednesday 9.30am-5pm; Thursday 1-8pm; Friday 1-5pm; Saturday 9.30am-5pm.
Further exhibits are on display at Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre, East Clyde Street.
See also Helensburgh Memories on Facebook
Winter Talks
Wednesday September 26 — Bruce Jamieson: Developing the Mackintosh Club
Wednesday October 31 — AGM; then David Clark: How Helensburgh ended the Great War
Wednesday November 28 — Eric Thompson: Helensburgh and the Peace Movement
Wednesday January 30 — Trust members: brief talks on images of the past
Wednesday February 27 — Robert Ryan: Loch Lomond islands by canoe
Wednesday March 27 — Jon Reid: The Royal Northern Story
Meetings in Helensburgh Civic Centre at 7.30pm.
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