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Steamer approaches1162 viewsA steamer approaches Helensburgh pier, image circa 1928. The following year the outdoor swimming pool was built beside the pier. The image also shows the waiting room and ticket office building on the end of the pier, and on the left, part of the bandstand beside West Clyde Street.
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Seafront shows1160 viewsShows on Helensburgh seafront between the bandstand and the Granary on a summer day as youngsters paddle in the Clyde. Image circa 1906.
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Municipal Buildings cat1159 viewsThis cat was a flight of fancy by architect and watercolourist Alexander Nisbet Paterson who was commissioned to design an extension to the Municipal Buildings in 1902 which was completed in 1906. The cat had become the pet of the builders, so the architect, a cat lover, immortalised it in stone on the second storey on the Sinclair Street side. As the extension housed the police station, he also added two pairs of stone handcuffs above the door. Image taken and supplied by Donald Fullarton.
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West Clyde Street and bandstand1158 viewsA 1902 view of West Clyde Street, looking east from Colquhoun Street, with the bandstand on the right and the Granary beyond.
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Colquhoun Square1152 viewsAn uncluttered Colquhoun Square is pictured in 1954.
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Seafront shelter1151 viewsThe John Street shelter on the West Esplanade, circa 1912. It was one of several seafront shelters which fell into disrepair and were demolished towards the end of the century.
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Sinclair Street1150 viewsThis picture of the foot of Sinclair Street in 1901 was republished as a postcard by Dumbarton District Libraries. On the right is the entrance to Waldie's Garage and Stabling, and beyond W.G.Christie's grocers shop.
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Looking east1147 viewsLooking east along West Princes Street towards St Michael and All Angels Scottish Episcopal Church on a foggy morning. Image by courtesy of Helensburgh Library; date unknown.
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Stormy seafront1147 viewsThis old picture shows the pier and the esplanade being battered by a storm at high tide. Image date unknown.
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Ferniegair entrance1146 viewsAn old image of Helensburgh's West Esplanade, with the gateway to Ferniegair on the right, with Provost's lamps outside. Ferniegair was the family home of the Kidston family. Richard Kidston was Provost of Helensburgh from 1840-49, and Adrian M.M.G.Kidston was Provost in 1911-12. The mansion was demolished in the 1960s. Image date unknown.
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Colquhoun Square1145 viewsThe pink granite Centenary Cross, donated in 1902 by Sir James Colquhoun of Luss to mark the centenary of the granting of the Burgh Charter, in its original position in the centre of Colquhoun Square. It was moved to the north west quadrant as it had become a traffic hazard. Image date unknown.
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Rustic bridge1144 viewsA couple walk across one of the rustic bridges at the south end of Hermitage Park. Image circa 1950.
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