NOT many people can be described as ‘a one-off’, but that description certainly applied to Garelochhead playwright Tom Gallacher.
Tom was very particular that it was Gallacher with a ‘c’ and not a ‘g’, but then Tom was a very particular man and he had very special talents. Let me give you a flavour . . .
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TONIGHT, with the muffled roar of London in my ears, I look down the long vista of the past and see again the little white town by the sea, the hills above it tinged with the warm sunset light.
I hear again the soft music of the evening bells, the bells of which they told us in our childhood that though we did not heed them now, we would remember them when we were old.
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At the first Open Meeting of 2019 at Helensburgh Civic Centre on Wednesday January 30 at 7.30pm Trust directors will tell the stories relating to several local images from bygone years.
Wednesday September 26 — Bruce Jamieson: Developing the Mackintosh Club
Wednesday October 31 — AGM; then David Clark: How Helensburgh ended the Great War
Wednesday November 28 — Eric Thompson: Helensburgh and the Peace Movement
Wednesday January 30 — Trust members: brief talks on images of the past
Wednesday February 27 — Robert Ryan: Loch Lomond islands by canoe
Wednesday March 27 — Jon Reid: The Royal Northern Story
Meetings in Helensburgh Civic Centre at 7.30pm.
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