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9th Argylls NCOs1275 viewsA group photo of the Hon Quartermaster and Non-Commissioned Officers of Headquarters Staff of the 9th Dumbartonshire Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, taken amid the ruins of Ypres in April 1915. This image is from a booklet entitled 'With the 9th Argylls in France and Flanders', printed and published by Macneur & Bryden Ltd. in Helensburgh and donated to Helensburgh Heritage Trust in 2010.
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The Band Stand1274 viewsThe Breingan Band Stand which stood on Helensburgh seafront opposite the Imperial Hotel features on this old postcard. Image date unknown.
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Helensburgh Lions Club1274 viewsMembers of Helensburgh Lions Club and their partners at the club's Burns Supper in January 1969. Front row centre is Clyde Street School headmaster Alex Douglas, a noted Burns speaker.
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Ardencaple cricket1274 viewsA Helensburgh Cricket Club match is in progress on the current pitch, while beyond is the Helensburgh Football Club pitch and pavilion. In the distance is the Larchfield School pavilion. Image circa 1930.
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Baird's childhood home1273 viewsHelensburgh-born TV inventor John Logie Baird poses outside the family home, The Lodge, in West Argyle Street, in 1900.
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Sinclair Street1273 viewsSinclair Street and the Municipal Buildings at the Princes Street junction. Image circa 1903.
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Cairndhu Hotel1273 viewsA card advertising the historic Cairndhu Hotel, later a nursing home for the elderly and now disused, photographed by Helensburgh photographer Bill Benzie. Originally Cairndhu House, it was built in 1871 to a William Leiper design in the style of a grand chateau for John Ure, Provost of Glasgow, whose son became Lord Strathclyde and lived in the mansion.. Image supplied by Jim Chestnut.
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Hermitage Park1272 viewsAn aerial view of Hermitage Park, Helensburgh, showing Hermitage House and the A.N.Paterson-designed War Memorial. Originally the home of the Cramb family, who sold what was then called Cramb Park to the Town Council in 1911 for £3,750, the mansion became an annexe to Hermitage School after World War One use as a hospital. After 1926 it became a council workshop and store, and it was eventually demolished in 1963. Image by courtesy of Helensburgh Library; date unknown.
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Baird by Conroy1271 viewsLocal artist Stephen Conroy painted this portrait of TV inventor John Logie Baird. He was specially commissioned by the Scottish Post Office Board to paint six portraits for a postcard series to celebrate the contribution Scots have made to communication, in the year of 1989 when the first Edinburgh Festival of Science and Technology took 'communication' as its theme.
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Country dancers1271 viewsMembers of the executive of the Helensburgh Country Dance Society at their annual Ball in the Queen's Hotel on December 4 1953. in the front row centre and third from right are branch founders Cathie Ramsay and Norah Dunn, and between them is branch president William Hunter, manager of James Simpson Ltd. in West Princes Street. In the background are members of an Australian pipe band which was visiting the district.
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Putting Green1271 viewsLooking east along the West Clyde Street putting green on a sunny day in the 1940s. Exact image date unknown.
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Helensburgh Old Pier1271 viewsAn 1848 image of the original Helensburgh pier which was approximately at the east end of the East Bay, not far from Henry Bell's Baths (later Queen's) Hotel.
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