Helensburgh Heritage
Helensburgh Heritage Trust
ONE of the hugely talented ‘Glasgow Boys’ artists who taught and worked in Helensburgh and District in his youth became a major figure in the London art world.
John Lavery, later Sir John, was given a two-page spread in the February 24 1912 edition of The Sphere, An illustrated Newspaper for the Home.
THE WORK of one of Helensburgh’s outstanding architects of years gone by can still be admired around the town.
Robert Wemyss FI Arch (Scot), LRIBA, is not as well-known as his contemporaries Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Leiper, but he contributed a great deal to the look of the town centre and other areas.
THE PAINTER of a portrait of a young girl — acquired by the Anderson Trust Local Collection — has not been positively identified, but may have been a famous artist and illustrator who grew up in Rhu.
The painting came from the estate of the late Vea Black, who lived in Dunavon, Rhu, in 2001, and the artist is highly likely to be have been her ‘Uncle Archie’, A.S.Hartrick.
THE TALK of the TV drama steamie in the spring of 2017 was a very talented Helensburgh-born actress.
Morven Christie, who says that she is beginning to wonder if she is becoming the go-to-actor for gutsy parts in top level drama series, was outstanding in the three-part BBC drama ‘The Replacement’.
WHY the infant town of Helensburgh came to have a theatre is a mystery.
One source which does offer a few clues is the book “A Nonogenarian’s Reminiscences of Garelochside and Helensburgh and The People who Dwelt Thereon and Therein”, written by Donald MacLeod (1883).
Charles Blatherwick's painting entitled 'The Coast Road' — perhaps the old Helensburgh pier from the east, with the Rosneath Peninsula beyond.
A LEADING Scottish artist of his time spent the final thirty years of his life enjoying living on the shores of the Gareloch.
Dr Charles Blatherwick, whose daughter Lily also was a well-known painter and printmaker, spent three decades at Dunaivon, Rhu, prior to his sudden death from a burst blood vessel in the brain at Fish House, Kirkcudbright, on September 17 1895.
A NEW novel has been named after former Helensburgh school Larchfield.
It has been written by Polly Clark, who herself lives quite close to the Colquhoun Street building, now converted into flats.