Helensburgh Heritage
Helensburgh Heritage Trust
AN EXHIBITION featuring Airships in World War One is on display in Helensburgh Library in West King Street until October 27.
Entitled 'Air Ace of Argyll', it tells the story of airship captain Major James Gardner Struthers, of Ardmaddy Estate near Oban, and opened today.
HELENSBURGH Heritage Trust and the Anderson (Local Collection) Trust record with regret the death of a descendant of the well-known Paterson family.
A Suffolk resident since her marriage in the 1950s, Anne Paterson Wallace, niece of the artist Viola Paterson, passed away peacefully on Sunday September 16 after a brave battle with ill health. She was predeceased by her husband Alan.
THE ORIGINAL mechanical television devised by Helensburgh TV pioneer John Logie Baird has been recreated by students at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
The model, built by engineering students, is to be gifted to Glasgow’s Riverside Museum, with the intention of using it for demonstrations for visiting school parties.
A NEW guide to TV programmes which have either been filmed in Scotland or have Scottish links has been dedicated to John Logie Baird.
Tourism body VisitScotland has dedicated its free book, TV Set in Scotland, to Baird to help mark the 130th anniversary of his birth, and it contains details of more than 60 programmes.
A VETERAN Royal Navy officer from Helensburgh has been awarded France’s highest order of merit for his service during the Second World War.
Harry Johnson, who is 95, was presented with the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur at the Clyde Naval Base at Faslane.
AN EXHIBITION of work by local artists Ted and Elizabeth Odling opened in Helensburgh on Saturday.
Following the success of the exhibition of her parents work which daughter Noelle set up on Lismore last autumn, it has been moved to Helensburgh Library on West King Street and will be open until October 31.
AN EXHIBITION of work by local artists Ted and Elizabeth Odling will open in Helensburgh Library tomorrow.
Following the success of the exhibition of her parents work that daughter Noelle set up on Lismore last autumn, it has been arranged to stage the exhibition in Helensburgh Library on West King Street until October 31.