Helensburgh Heritage
Helensburgh Heritage Trust
IT IS amazing what can sometimes be found in an old book . . . but all is not always what it seems.
Former Helensburgh Advertiser editor, Fiona Howard, found a book “First Whisper of the Wind in the Willows”, by Kenneth Grahame, in the town’s Oxfam shop.
A new book has been published about the work of Helensburgh's TV pioneer John Logie Baird. It is . . .
The Three Dimensions of John Logie Baird
By Dr Douglas Brown
John Logie Baird (1888-1946) is remembered as the inventor of television but his work in colour, 3D and holographic television is much less well known. As are his significant contributions to other information sciences and their resulting technologies.
Pleasures of the Firth: 200 Years of Clyde Steamers
by Andrew Clark
The Three Dimensions of John Logie Baird
by Dr Douglas Brown
HELENSBURGH Heritage Trust published this book in May 2002 to mark the bicentenary of the burgh.
It is a handsome hard-backed book with many original illustrations by local artist Neil Macleod, many colour reproductions of oil and watercolour paintings, current photographs by Donald Fullarton and Neil MacLeod, and reproductions of photographs going back to the early days of photography.
200 Years of Clyde Paddle Steamers
by Alistair Deayton and Iain Quinn
Ted and Elizabeth Odling — Artists of the West of Scotland
by Noelle, Christopher and Nicholas Odling