Have a great day out shopping for bargains! Helensburgh is a caring and generous community and as such has a number of well-stocked charity shops offering a cornucopia of bargain finds for the discerning shopper. A recent (pre-Lockdown) browsing expedition turned up a new cashmere jumper, a pair of linen jeans, a sterling silver picture […]
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Helensburgh’s Coat of Arms combines elements of both Clan Colquhoun and the Dukes of Sutherland’s arms. This references the foundation of Helensburgh in 1776 by Sir James Colquhoun, 1st Baronet of Luss, who, a few years after advertising the feus, named it after his wife Lady Helen Sutherland. The central shield has the saltire of
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Hermitage Park is a public park in Helensburgh, featuring an A-listed war memorial. The earliest information about the land that now forms Hermitage Park is reference in a charter of 1351. Milligs Mill is shown in the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland of 1654. Hermitage House was built by Robert Fulton Alexander, a Glasgow merchant, in
Friends of Hermitage Park Association (FoHPA), SCIO SC042935, are ‘a group of volunteers dedicated to saving our Park from neglect and decay.’ Hermitage Park development project was initiated in 2010 when a few local residents expressed concern about the deterioration of Hermitage Park over many years in terms of both maintenance and safety. The group
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The 2024 Helensburgh Winter Festival will take place 30th November – 1December 2024. Events include: Follow the Festival Facebook page for all the latest updates, or visit the Helensburgh Winter Festival website! You may also be interested in …
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Henry Bell 1767-1830, Innovator and Businessman Henry Bell first came to Helensburgh in 1806 and was to spend the rest of his life here. He was a pioneer of place marketing and “the first person to place a practical steamship on British waters”. A “little Clyde experiment” that was “to pioneer the way to an astonishing
John Logie Baird is widely credited as being the first person in the world to demonstrate a working television. Born and educated in Helensburgh (Larchfield School), Baird enrolled at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College to study engineering. This course combined both formal tuition and placements as an apprentice in various firms and
