| Most viewed - Welcome to the Helensburgh Heritage Trust Gallery |
Seafront paddling1072 viewsPaddling at what in times gone by was known as The Sands, Helensburgh. Image date unknown.
|
|
Map card1072 viewsA map card showing the MacBrayne steamer PS Columba and a map of the Firth of Clyde, circa 1902.
|
|
Helensburgh Scout Leaders1072 viewsHelensburgh Scout Leaders and Rover Scouts pose for a formal photograph, circa 1918. Image supplied by Geoff Riddington.
|
|
Garelochhead1071 viewsA view of Garelochhead from the station. Date unknown.
|
|
Adam and Eve1071 viewsRosneath was renowned in the 19th century for its trees including two very large silver firs at Campsail, known as 'Adam and Eve', which were reputed to be the largest in Britain at 130 feet (40 metres) with a girth of 30 feet immediately above the ground, and over 200 years old in 1891. Eventually they died and were cut down. Image date unknown.
|
|
James Gordon Burgess1071 viewsA caricature by Helensburgh artist Gregor Ian Smith of James Gordon Burgess, a keen gardener who won two silver bowls outright — for winning each three years in succession — at Helensburgh Flower Shows in the 1930s for carnations grown in his plot in Hermitage Park. Image supplied by Jenny Sanders.
|
|
Seafront view1070 viewsA Tuck & Sons Oilette postcard of Helensburgh seafront, circa 1907. It was painted by Henry Wimbush, who was most active in painting between 1881 and 1908 when he lived at various addresses in London. Like many of his contemporaries in the Tuck's postcards stable, he toured Britain for inspiration and his coverage was far more comprehensive than many of the other Tuck illustrators — including a number of Clyde scenes. His watercolours were published by Tuck between 1904 and 1908, the majority in the Oilette series.
|
|
Laid up shipping1070 viewsMerchant shipping laid up in the Gareloch off Clynder during the 1930s.
|
|
Faslane Base1070 viewsA view of HM Naval Base Clyde at Faslane from the hillside above. Image supplied by Gordon Fraser.
|
|
The Duke of Kent at Rhu1069 viewsHRH The Duke of Kent on board the RNLI inshore rescue boat at Rhu on July 21 1994.
|
|
Redgauntlet at war1069 viewsThe Clyde paddle steamer Redgauntlet saw service as a World War One minesweeper. Built by Barclay Curle in 1895 for the North British Railway, she served on the Craigendoran to Rothesay route. In August 1899 she ran on to rocks off Arran in a gale and was badly holed, but the captain ran her up the beach so that crew and passengers could be rescued. After repairs, she was moved to the Forth in 1909 and then sold to the Galloway Steam Packet Company. Later she went to Algeria and was broken up about 1934.
|
|
Helensburgh Sands1069 viewsAn imaginative and humorous postcard from the early 1900s featuring Helensburgh beach in days gone by.
|
|
| 2190 files on 183 page(s) |
 |
|
|
|
|
111 | |
|
|
|
|
