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Hermitage School Concert2681 viewsPupils from 4th, 5th and 6th years who performed at the Hermitage School Concert in 1950. Image supplied by Iain McCulloch.
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Mystery Rhu group2655 viewsThis image supplied by Alistair Quinlan show a Rhu group, possibly a church outing, circa 1910. Back row third right is his grandfather, William Lyon Winton, and sprawling on the grass front left is his brother, Arthur Burnett Winton. Their brother, Sidney Walker Winton, who was between them in age is probably wearing the white shirt, to the right of the cornet (5th right front). Any more information would be welcome.
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Former Pupils Dance2639 viewsA Hermitage School Former Pupils Dance in the 1940s. Among those in the picture are headmaster Jimmy Bell, Robin Spy and Stanley Brown. Image supplied by Iain McCulloch.
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Clyde Street School class 19532634 viewsBack row: Jim Graham, Donald Scott, X, Ronnie McLean, X, X, X, X; 2nd back row: X, Campbell Mackie, X, X, X, X, James Spalding, X; middle row: Sheila Somerville, Pauline Aitken, Janet Fagan, Rae Dennett, X, Molly Oswald, X, Catriona McKinnon, X; 2nd front row: Avril Johnston(e) X, X, X, X, Marilyn White, X, X, Sylvia Gilchrist, X; front row: X, X, X, Charlie McGoldrick,, X, Rae Dewar, Netta Adamson. Image supplied by Jim Graham. More names would be welcomed.
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The Swimming Pool2624 viewsHelensburgh's outdoor pool. Undated, possible the 1960s.
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The Queen's Hotel2616 viewsOriginally the Baths Hotel and home of Helensburgh's first Provost, steamship pioneer Henry Bell, the Queen's Hotel was built by Bell in 1806. It was converted into flats in the mid-1980s. In front of the front door is the Volvo estate car used for many years by the last manager, Norman Drummond. Image date unknown.
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Clyde Street School 1953-42606 viewsA picture of a class at Helensburgh's Clyde Street School. Image supplied by Alex Hunter, Ontario, Canada, who is in the third row, second from the right. In the second row, fourth from left, is Mary MacKinnon, and on the extreme left of the front row is Joe McKell who went on to become a well known local footballer. Alex thinks the teacher was Miss Minto, and would welcome any more information.
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Hermitage 19582588 viewsForm 2A at Hermitage School in 1958. Top row: Jeremy Stewart, Douglas Anderson, Stephen Drake, Alan Jones, Jim Davis, Kenneth Jack, Richard Jones, Tom Dunn, Douglas Payne, Norman Brown, Christopher Mitchell; middle: Margaret Calderwood, Maisie Lamond, Kenneth Osborne, Ian McKay, Jim McArthur, Graham Craig, Brian McLaren, Duncan Walker, Douglas Sammon, Irene McLaren, Leo Watson, Marjorie McDonald; front: Moira Crawford, Susan Peel, Ann Bridge, Alison Hunt, Margaret Parlane, Form Teacher Mr Barr, Marlyn Whyte, Joyce Robertson, Joan Robertson, Jeannette Suffield, Margaret Beveridge. Image supplied by Marlyn Ritchie (nee Whyte).
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Hermitage class 19442583 viewsA Hermitage School class pictured in 1944. Top row (from left): Robin Maltman, Drew Buchanan, Neil Burgess, Clark Gibson, John Mills, Billy Price, John Glennie, Harry McAdam; 2nd row: Donald McLean, ?, Harry Fraser, ?, Robin Price, ?, Gordon Grant, Jim Campbell, Herbert Curtis, Ronnie Porter; 3rd row: Eric Beauman, Victor Petrie, Philip O´Brian, Silvia Mitchell, Pat Patterson, Florence Hendry, Lorna Robb, Helen Freeland, ?, Judith Peel, Maggie Rice; 4th row: Rene Webster, Miss Adair, Sheena Campbell, Ailsa Pattison, Kay Willison, Aileen Dodd, ?, ?, ?, Elma Davis, Joyce Henderson, Susan Drysdale; front row: John Ferris, Billy Young, Henry Curtis, Jim McNeill, Angus Tran, David Griffiths, Duncan MacCallum. Image supplied by Gordon Tran, and names by Gordon Fraser and Jim McNeil.
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Local Notre Dame pupils2581 viewsFive girls from the Helensburgh area, aged 14 or 15, who attended the then Notre Dame High School in Dumbarton around 1950. They are the late Betty Mundie with Margaret Huxtable at the back, and in front Gwen King, who supplied the image, Helen Healey and Irene Cullinan, all from Helensburgh except Margaret who lived in Arrochar.
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Land of the Free2579 viewsA scene from the Hermitage Academy production of 'Land of the Free', one of the sketches in a school concert entitled 'Conducted Tour" which ran for three nights in March 1969. It was the brainchild of deputy rector John Robertson. Elizabeth Burns is seen as Lady Macbeth.
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Knockderry Castle, Cove2576 viewsBuilt on the site of a Danish fort about 1855 to the design of the famous architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, Knockderry Castle at Cove became the family home of the Templeton carpet manufacturing family. In 1896-7 another famous architect, William Leiper, designed an extension and a lodge for John Templeton, and a famous guest of his at the castle was millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. For some years a hotel, it is now a private residence again. Image circa 1912.
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