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Chess at Hermitage1504 viewsPlay in progress at a chess match between Hermitage School and Dumbarton's Keil School in March 1969.
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Play in the Park1502 viewsChildren enjoy Hermitage Park. The Cenotaph can be seen in the distance.
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Larchfield School Forms 4A and B 19581500 viewsRear (from right): ? Russell, Richard Marshall, Peter Jack, Charles Nicholson, George Watson, A.Robertson, Jeremy Scales, Andrew Nicholson, Alastair Trail; 2nd back: Timothy Scott, William Burgess, John Glen, Alastair Wingate, Richard North, Ian MacFadyen, Brian Brown, William Young, Dave Robertson; middle: Christopher Grieve, Colin Wearmouth, Colin Service, Graham Carver, John Blackie; front: John Wright, William Stewart Robertson, David Young, Michael Henderson, Kenneth Henderson, Geoffrey Bamford.
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Diamond Wedding 19021496 viewsA family group at the diamond wedding party of Helensburgh man J.W.McCulloch, who set up the family painting and decorating business in Helensburgh in 1846 after losing his money in the Gold Rush, and his wife. Venue unknown. Image supplied by his great grandson, Iain McCulloch.
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Breaking of the Aquitania1495 viewsCunard liner Aquitania being broken up at Faslane Shipbreaking Yard in 1950. The Aquitania had been built at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank in 1914, and was the last of the four-funnelled vessels in service in the world. This photo was taken by Howard Macdonald.
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1933 Helensburgh seafront1492 viewsAn unusual view of Helensburgh's west seafront from the pier, with two shelters, taken during the very hot summer of 1933.
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3rd Helensburgh Scouts 19561489 viewsBack: D.Cairns, A.Glendye, N.McLeod, J.Thomson, ?, G.Snedden, ?, ?, K.Mercer, R.McLean; next: I.Allan, W.Clelland, P.Devenny, G.Tran, A.Brabender, W.Wilson, F.Gilmour, W.Freeland, C.Sutherland, T.Allan, ?, J.West, Ian McLeod, T.Wright, ?; seated: G.Marsland, G.Cleary, Iain McLeod, W.Campbell, J.Steel, I.Sutherland, J.D.McKerrel, A.Wright, S.Douglas, A.Wright, W.Harvey, R.Higgins, A.Tran; front: I.Cairns, I.Mercer, ?, A.Thomson, I.Donaldson, J.Douglas. Photo by Bill Benzie, supplied by Gordon Tran.
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Steamboat on the Clyde - William Daniell1489 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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The RAF Heinkel1488 viewsThis photo by World War Two photographer Bob Bird shows a German Heinkel aircraft from the Marine Aircraft Experimental Research Establishment at Rhu in flight as an RAF aircraft. It was one of two Heinkel He 115 floatplanes modified by MAEE and Scottish Aviation to fly agents into Europe. Reproduced by kind permission of Robin Bird, who wrote ‘Top Secret War Bird of World War Two’ about his father.
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Mr and Mrs Andy Clyde1488 viewsMovie star Andy Clyde, one of three members of Helensburgh's Clyde family who made their names as actors, is pictured at home with his wife, former Mack Sennett bathing beauty Elsie Maud Tarran, on April 6 1934. He was an artist of no mean ability and often sketched his wife. The couple married on September 23 1932 in Ontario, San Bernadino, California. A son, John Allan, was born in 1935 but tragically died in 1944.
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Helensburgh engine1486 viewsV1 Engine no.67631, a Gresley design introduced in 1930 and weighing 84 tons, pictured at Helensburgh Central in November 1952.
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Jubilant Ne'erday swimmers1486 viewsLily Finnighan, Helen McDonagh and Jenny Burgess celebrate after taking part in the 1953 Ne'erday Swim at Helensburgh pier. Image supplied by Jenny Sanders.
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