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World War Two Sea Cadets886 viewsHelensburgh's Ajax Company of the Sea Cadet Corps pictured at their 1944 Summer Camp at Stanley Park, Blackpool. Back row: ?, William Hardy, Hugh Dawson, Ian McPhail, George Hood, William Fyfe, William Daly, ? Dewar, ?; middle: Alastair Clow, ? McKechnie, Jim Hosie, Thomas Dickson, Lieutenant McLean, William Paterson, Thomas Dawson, Robert Hailstones, ?; seated: Leslie Ward, Thomas Isbister, ?. Image supplied by Robert Hailstones.
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The East Bay885 viewsAn old view of the East Bay looking towards the town centre. Image date unknown.
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Hastings experiment885 viewsJohn Logie Baird working at Hastings, circa 1924.
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1st Cardross Cub Pack c.1947/8885 viewsBack row (from left): ?, Andrew Thomson, Martin Carrie, Bruce Kelly, Willie McSporran, Donald Maclean, John Sofio, Neil Campbell, Donald McSporran; middle row: ?, Hugh Davie, Bobby Brown, Alec Davie, Ian McLeod, Jimmy MacDonald, Robert Paterson, Bill Clow, Freddy Ashman; front: Jim McPherson, Neil Shaw, Duncan Bulloch, Elspeth MacArthur?, Archie Mills, May Campbell, Andrew Mackie, Walter Ashman, Donald McNair. Missing names would be welcomed. Image supplied by Donald Maclean.
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Snow-bound885 viewsOn Wednesday February 28 2018 an exceptionally severe blizzard hit much of Scotland and rail services were suspended in the early afternoon. This photo shows a snow-bound class 334 electric train in Helensburgh Central Station at about 6.30am the following morning. Photo by Darrel Hendrie.
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Sketch of St Bride's Church884 viewsA sketch of St Bride's Church, which stood in West King Street at the junction with John Street. It is from the book 'Sketches of Churches and Clergy, published by Macneur and Bryden Ltd. of Helensburgh in 1889. Originally known as the West Parish Church, St Bride's Church was opened on March 10 1878. Its first minister was the Rev John Baird, father of TV inventor John Logie Baird. In 1981 it was united with the then Old and St Andrew's Church in Colquhoun Square to become the West Kirk, and a few years later it was demolished and replaced by a new burgh library and flats.
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Church sold884 viewsHelensburgh's Church of Christ, Scientist, in West Princes Street, was designed in 1956 by Margaret Brodie. The First Church of Christ, Scientist had its beginnings in Helensburgh in 1910, and a plot of ground at 138-144 West Princes Street was bought in 1946; ten years later a church was built there. By 2015 the building was closed and for sale, and it was bought by a firm of architects who announced two2 years later that they would convert it into flats. 2015 image by Stewart Noble.
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Cove883 viewsA view of Cove from North Ailey, circa 1904.
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Tarbet and the Cobbler883 viewsA view from the eastern side of Loch Lomond looking across at Tarbet, with its large hotel prominent, and beyond to the summit of the Cobbler mountain. Also known as Ben Arthur, it is called the Cobbler because of its resemblance, from a distance, to a cobbler at work. Image circa 1934.
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Fruin Water883 viewsAn old image of the Fruin Water. Image date and exact location not known.
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Early portrait883 viewsTV inventor John Logie Baird, pictured as a young man. Image date not known.
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Kintillo883 viewsKintillo in Suffolk Street, Helensburgh, the home of Andrew Bonar Law and his wife Annie. He employed famous architect William Leiper to add a billiard room, and they lived there until 1909 when the family moved to London. Photo by Donald Fullarton.
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