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Rest Cure854 viewsA novelty card sent by Auntie Ida in Ardenconnel, Rhu, to her niece Joan Walters in Bowdon, a village in Trafford, Manchester. Date unknown.Jul 05, 2020
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Romantic card335 viewsA 1938 novelty postcard sent to Michael Sewell, Balgonie, Helensburgh, by Jack Morrock in Geneva.Jul 05, 2020
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Spoof card1465 viewsA card produced by Valentine's of Dundee showing a poster for an Extra Special Edition of the Helensburgh Times announcing someone's arrival in the town. A blank line was left to fill in the name — in this case Dickie. Image circa 1912.Feb 10, 2015
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Clyde Street799 viewsThis postcard bearing the Helensburgh coat of arms is looking east from Colquhoun Street towards the bandstand and the Old Parish Church. Image circa 1907.Sep 05, 2011
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Novelty postcard928 viewsA 1911 novelty postcard bearing Greetings from Helensburgh, which shows the Training Ship Empress moored in the Gareloch at Rhu, and below it a scene in which the young man on the left is saying "I am having a change, different girl again".Apr 07, 2011
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Helensburgh Sands864 viewsAn imaginative and humorous postcard from the early 1900s featuring Helensburgh beach in days gone by.Oct 08, 2009
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Helensburgh's coat of arms971 viewsA colourful representation of Helensburgh's coat of arms, one of a Heraldic Series, circa 1905.May 06, 2009
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Unusual Helensburgh card1201 viewsThis unusual card, posted on December 17 1901, has a version of the Helensburgh coat of arms and four scenes — the West Esplanade, Rhu Bay, Helensburgh golf course, and the East Bay.Feb 22, 2009
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The Band Stand1019 viewsThe Breingan Band Stand which stood on Helensburgh seafront opposite the Imperial Hotel features on this old postcard. Image date unknown.Jun 28, 2008
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Centenary Cross883 viewsOld postcard with the centenary cross in the middle of Colquhoun Square, and the coat of arms.Dec 17, 2007
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Craigendoran Station1096 viewsA Tucks oilette postcard of Craigendoran Station with a train coming into the station. The station and steamer terminal opened for business under the North British Railway on May 15 1882, and steamer services were finally withdrawn in 1972. The piers have since become derelict, and on the firth side of the line the station buildings are long gone. Post-dated June 3 1907 to New York, the card has an American one cent stamp on it.Dec 07, 2007
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Pierhead919 viewsRobert Brown's "Cyclists Rest" and "Pierhead Vaults" is on the Colquhoun Street corner. In the distance is the bandstand. Date unknown.Nov 29, 2007
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