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Black Bridge, Glen Fruin1172 viewsA photograph taken in the 1920s by keen amateur photographer Robert Thorburn, a Helensburgh grocery store manager. It shows the Black Bridge in Glen Fruin, with the schoolhouse in the background.Oct 13, 2007
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Sword found in Glen Fruin1449 viewsDate not known.Oct 13, 2007
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Tennis Prizegiving 19131565 viewsMembers of Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club at the annual prizegiving.Oct 13, 2007
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Tennis in 19131361 viewsPlayers on the grass courts at Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club in Suffolk Street in 1913Oct 13, 2007
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General Booth965 viewsThe founder of the Salvation Army, General William Booth, leaves from Helensburgh pier the day after speaking at the Victoria Hall on October 26 1910, and is seen with Provost David S.Maclachlan. Booth, born in 1826, was the son of a Nottingham builder and converted to Christianity aged 15. He became a revivalist preacher, and in 1865 he and his wife Catherine set up a Christian Mission in London's east end to help the poor. It was reorganised along military lines in 1878, and the Salvation Army was born. He died in 1912.Oct 13, 2007
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Larchfield 1st XV 19551673 viewsThe rugby 1st XV at Helensburgh's Larchfield School (now part of Lomond School) in 1955. Front: Muir, Mellis, Buchan. Middle: Kennedy, Ramage, Wingate, Hesketh, Nicol. Back: Birnie, Henderson, Lawrence, Bamford, Fullarton, Duncan, Bamford.Oct 13, 2007
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Helensburgh Dorian Choir1010 viewsDate not known.Oct 13, 2007
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The late Queen Mother929 viewsThe late Queen Mother is pictured at the Clyde Submarine Base at Faslane in May 1968.Oct 13, 2007
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Rhu School 1909-102736 viewsOct 13, 2007
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Sir William Raeburn1298 viewsTHE FIRST holder of the Baronetcy of Helensburgh, Sir William Raeburn.
The Raeburn Baronetcy of Helensburgh in the County of Dunbarton is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, and it was created on July 25 1923 for the Conservative MP for Dunbartonshire, head of the shipping company of Raeburn & Verel Ltd.Oct 13, 2007
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Tarbet Hotel, circa 19221353 viewsErected about 1810, the Tarbet Hotel was built in true Scottish baronial style with fine features both inside and out, and has been a mecca for visitors ever since.Oct 13, 2007
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Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch1322 viewsHELENSBURGH man Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch, who died on August 12 2007 at the age of 93, is reputed to have played a major part in the choice of Faslane as the home of Britain’s Polaris submarine fleet. But the World War Two hero was best known as a submarine ace and a serial escaper after being captured by the Germans in the Mediterranean in 1943. Oct 13, 2007
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