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Rhu Pier890 viewsLuxury yachts and the Training Ship Empress moored off Rhu Pier, circa 1906.
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Loch Sloy pipeline803 viewsThe pipeline from Loch Sloy down the hillside to the Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric Station at Inveruglas on the west bank of Loch Lomond. Work on the scheme started in May 1945, using German prisoners of war, and it was opened by HM The Queen on October 18 1950. Twenty one lives were lost during its construction. Photo supplied by Gordon Fraser.
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Swimmers Party1558 viewsA Helensburgh Swimming Club Party in the Pillar Hall in the 1950s. Image supplied by Iain McCulloch.
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Harvest165 viewsPhotograph taken c.1913 probably by keen amateur photographer Robert Thorburn, a Helensburgh grocery store manager. It shows harvesting on the hillside above Balernock or Shandon pier. Image supplied by David Clark from a collection of glass slides.
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General Booth in Burgh752 viewsGeneral William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, visited Helensburgh on October 26 1910 to give a lecture in the Victoria Hall, staying overnight with the Kidston family at Ferniegair. He is pictured at Helensburgh pier the next day before leaving for Port Glasgow, with Provost David S.Maclachlan saying farewell. The gentleman in the bowler hat is the Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire, Lord Inverclyde. Image supplied by Provost Billy Petrie.
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Prince William-4839 viewsHRH Prince William of Wales visited HM Naval Base Clyde at Faslane on October 19 2007 in his honorary Royal Navy capacity as Commodore-in-Chief Scotland and Submarines. He is pictured arriving at the base in one of the Royal Marines new high-speed offshore raiding craft, which he boarded at the Clyde Offsite Centre in Rhu and which he took control of for a time. Prince William is currently a serving Second Lieutenant in the Household Cavalry, also known as the Blues and Royals.
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Deborah Kerr and William Holden760 viewsHelensburgh film star Deborah Kerr and co-star William Holden are pictured in a publicity still for the film “The Proud and the Profane”, a 1956 dramatic war romance for Paramount Pictures, directed by George Seaton and produced by William Perlberg, from a screenplay by George Seaton, based on the novel “The Magnificent Bastards” by Lucy Herndon Crockett.
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Unknown Football Team1707 viewsThe venue might be Ardenconnel Park, Rhu, but neither the team nor the date are known.
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155 viewsLooking down Torr Road above Rhu. Image date unknown.Jan 24, 2022
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Congratulations832 viewsKing Albert I of Belgium is congratulated by Asquith, Bonar Law and Redmond on the Belgians brave and heeroic discharge of their duties at the Siege of Antwerp, an engagement between the German and the Belgian, British and French armies around the fortified city of Antwerp during World War One. German troops besieged a garrison of Belgian fortress troops, the Belgian field army and the British Royal Naval Division in the Antwerp area, after the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914. Image c.1915.Jan 24, 2022
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Bonar Law lantern slide413 viewsA Magic Lantern Slide of Andrew Bonar Law crossing a road in London. Image date unknown.Jan 24, 2022
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Payne Grocers588 viewsAn old image of a van outside Arthur Payne's grocery store at The Clachan, Rosneath. Image date unknown.Jan 19, 2022
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Bonar Law with Mussolini519 viewsA December 1922 image of French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré and Andrew Bonar Law with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Belgian Prime Minister M.Theunis at 10 Downing Street.Jan 03, 2022
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Rosneath memorial210 viewsCommander Bill Jones from the Clyde Naval Base at Faslane and Holly Smith of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the dedication of the memorial to the American and British forces who served or trained at Rosneath during the years 1941-45 on Friday September 10 2010.Dec 09, 2021
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Wartime colours843 viewsA 1942 image of the steamer Lucy Ashton arriving at Kilcreggan Pier. The 271-ton vessel was launched on May 24 1888 by T.B.Seath at Rutherglen. She began on the Holy Loch run but later became more familiar on the Gareloch service from Craigendoran. She remained on the Clyde throughout both world wars. She made her last run in February 1949. Her stripped down hull saw further experimental use by the British Shipbuilding Research Association, including being fitted with a jet engine.Dec 09, 2021
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Peninsula colours1349 viewsColours are presented to the Rosneath Peninsula Boy Scout companies in 1914. Standing: J.McIntyre, Cove and Kilcreggan scoutmaster Mr Rae, Rosneath scoutmaster Mr Young, W.McGruer, G.Silver; front: G.Fleming, A.MacKenzie, J.Young, J.Keir, A.McGrouther.Dec 09, 2021
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