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Training Ship Empress3005 viewsThe Empress moored in the Gareloch off Rhu. She was the second of two charitable training ships for boys, and was in the Gareloch from 1889 until the 1920s, with staff giving a tough and sometimes brutal training to the 300 boys on board at any time.
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TS Empress3001 viewsThe Empress moored in the Gareloch off Rhu. She was the second of two charitable training ships for boys, and was in the Gareloch from 1889 until the 1920s, with staff giving a tough and sometimes brutal training to the 300 boys on board at any time. In this picture some can be seen aloft. Image circa 1910.
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The Queen's Hotel2932 viewsOriginally the Baths Hotel and home of Helensburgh's first Provost, steamship pioneer Henry Bell, the Queen's Hotel was built by Bell in 1806. It was converted into flats in the mid-1980s. In front of the front door is the Volvo estate car used for many years by the last manager, Norman Drummond. Image date unknown.
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Steamboat on the Clyde - William Daniell2915 viewsThe theme of the 2023 exhibition of works in the Anderson Collection is “Piers and Jetties” illustrated by artists, mainly from this area and ranging in period over the past 200 years.
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Rhu School 1909-102910 views
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Three Heads2897 viewsDavid Arthur (left), the first headmaster of Lomond School — formed by the merger of Larchfield School for boys with St Bride's School for girls — is pictured a long serving St Bride's head, Miss Rachel Drever Smith, who retired around 1975, and a former Larchfield head who later became the Rector of a church in the Stonehaven area, the Rev Stephen Hutchison. Image supplied by David Arthur, date unknown.
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Hermitage School Concert2880 viewsPupils from 4th, 5th and 6th years who performed at the Hermitage School Concert in 1950. Image supplied by Iain McCulloch.
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Hermitage 19582860 viewsForm 2A at Hermitage School in 1958. Top row: Jeremy Stewart, Douglas Anderson, Stephen Drake, Alan Jones, Jim Davis, Kenneth Jack, Richard Jones, Tom Dunn, Douglas Payne, Norman Brown, Christopher Mitchell; middle: Margaret Calderwood, Maisie Lamond, Kenneth Osborne, Ian McKay, Jim McArthur, Graham Craig, Brian McLaren, Duncan Walker, Douglas Sammon, Irene McLaren, Leo Watson, Marjorie McDonald; front: Moira Crawford, Susan Peel, Ann Bridge, Alison Hunt, Margaret Parlane, Form Teacher Mr Barr, Marlyn Whyte, Joyce Robertson, Joan Robertson, Jeannette Suffield, Margaret Beveridge. Image supplied by Marlyn Ritchie (nee Whyte).
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Flywheel and anvil2859 viewsThe Comet flywheel and Henry Bell's anvil resited on Helensburgh's East Bay, close to the original jetty, as part of the Helensburgh bicentenary celebrations. It was formerly in Hermitage Park. Photo by Donald Fullarton.
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Clyde Street School class 19532855 viewsBack row: Jim Graham, Donald Scott, X, Ronnie McLean, X, X, X, X; 2nd back row: X, Campbell Mackie, X, X, X, X, James Spalding, X; middle row: Sheila Somerville, Pauline Aitken, Janet Fagan, Rae Dennett, X, Molly Oswald, X, Catriona McKinnon, X; 2nd front row: Avril Johnston(e) X, X, X, X, Marilyn White, X, X, Sylvia Gilchrist, X; front row: X, X, X, Charlie McGoldrick,, X, Rae Dewar, Netta Adamson. Image supplied by Jim Graham. More names would be welcomed.
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Print presented2853 viewsComet bicentenary committee and Helensburgh Heritage Trust chairman Stewart Noble presents a signed and framed print of Neil MacLeod's painting of the Comet replica to the captain of the world's last sea-going paddle steamer PS 'Waverley to mark the bicentenary in July 2012. Photo by Judy Noble.
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The Swimming Pool2851 viewsHelensburgh's outdoor pool. Undated, possible the 1960s.
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