Helensburgh

As part of Argyll and Bute’s CHORD programme to revitalise Helensburgh’s town centre, an ambitious and ongoing project is underway to create a unique Outdoor Museum for Colquhoun Square. The vision is to create an accessible Outdoor Museum that will explore, celebrate and display the rich and varied history of Helensburgh for local residents and visitors to the town, both now and in time to come. The project is particularly an opportunity to record the untold stories- gems of history and heritage. Quoted from the Outdoor Museum website

The story of Helensburgh's piers on the Helensburgh Heritage Trust website

Located in Helensburgh, Hermitage Park is a set of formal gardens containing attractive fields, shrubbery and a fascinating old mill. Quoted from the Visit Scotland website

The Firth of Clyde is the mouth of the River Clyde and the deepest coastal waters in the British Isles, sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire. Quoted from Wikipedia

Helensburgh is Argyll’s largest town, excellently located in a wonderful setting on the Clyde Coast. Within easy reach of the conurbation of Glasgow and the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, the town already functions as major centre for tourist activities such as golf, cycling, walking and sailing. Quoted from the Argyll and Bute Council website

The story of Helensburgh's piers on the Helensburgh Heritage Trust website

Helelensburgh Parish Church website

Helensburgh Cemetery is a 19th-century burial ground on the Old Luss Road in Helensburgh, Argyll, Scotland. Together with its boundary walls, lodge, gatepiers and gates it is designated as a Category B listed building by Historic Scotland. Quoted from Wikipedia

Helensburgh Cemetery is a 19th-century burial ground on the Old Luss Road in Helensburgh, Argyll, Scotland. Together with its boundary walls, lodge, gatepiers and gates it is designated as a Category B listed building by Historic Scotland. Quoted from Wikipedia

Helensburgh War Memorial website Hermitage Park on Facebook

The Firth of Clyde is the mouth of the River Clyde and the deepest coastal waters in the British Isles, sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire. Quoted from Wikipedia

John Logie Baird FRSE... was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator, demonstrating the world's first working television system on 26 January 1926. He also invented the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube. Quoted from Wikipedia

West Clyde Street, Helensburgh

RFA Tiderace is a Tide-class replenishment tanker of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). Ordered from DSME in 2012, she was officially named on 1 December 2016 and was accepted by the Ministry of Defence in June 2017. Tiderace entered service on 2 August 2018. Quoted from Wikipedia .

A special local form of transport is the paddle steamer Waverley which calls in to Helensburgh pier during summer sailings. It advertises itself as the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world and was launched in 1946 for service from Craigendoran pier; however Craigendoran pier is now derelict, services having been withdrawn in 1972. Quoted from Wikipedia .

The Firth of Clyde is the mouth of the River Clyde. It is located on the west coast of Scotland and forms the deepest coastal waters in the British Isles (up to 164m). Quoted from Wikipedia The graceful holiday town of Helensburgh was named after the wife of Sir James Colquhoun, who founded the town at the end of the 18th century. Handsome buildings, wide elegant tree-lined streets, long promenade and attractive parks and gardens create a pleasantly distinguished atmosphere, even more so in summer as pleasure cruisers jostle at the pier. Quoted from the Visit Scotland .

The West Kirk (since 2015 called Helensburgh Parish Church) is a Church of Scotland parish church on Colquhoun Square in Helensburgh, Argyll, Scotland. Designed by James Hay, in 1853, it is designated as a Category B listed building by Historic Environment Scotland. Quoted from Wikipedia

Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute