HELENSBURGH and RHU
The seafront has an indoor swimming pool, an esplanade walk and sailing facilities including Helensburgh Sailing Club. and the nearby marina at Rhu just beyond the town boundary. The streets are built on a gentle slope rising to the north east, and at the brow of the hill a golf club has views looking south out over the town to the Clyde, and to the north across nearby Loch Lomond to the Trossachs hills.
Bairdstravel heads to the Clydecoast town of Helensburgh . Two-five mins from our
home town of Clydebank. We are here quite a lot because it so handy . We love to walk along the shore to the Yaght club near Rhu. Might nip into the Ardencaple for a beer.
JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
THE COMMONDORE
John Logie Baird (14 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish[1] engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system, also the world's first fully electronic colour television broadcast. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems (such as those of Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth), his early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earn him a prominent place in television's invention.
Baths on the site of Ardencaple Castle, which dated back to about 1600. He then had the seaside resort town constructed to the east of the spa on a formal layout in the style of Edinburgh New Town, and named it after his wife Helen. A ferry service he arranged across the Firth of Clyde to Greenock was successful in attracting residents who could commute from jobs there to attractive homes in the new town.
Here`s some pics from past trips to the town.
Bairdstravels stop of at the Ardencaple while in the Helensburgh area .
Family day out
May 2011
Another short trip out to the Ardencaple hotel. Beer and burger only £5.75
Walked along from the main carpark in Helensburgh. Great excercise destroyed by pints of beer.
Located in the picturesque setting of Rhu near Helensburgh, and overlooking the east side of Gareloch, this hotel assures a traditional warm and friendly Scottish welcome. Rooms are fully en suite and feature the comforts you would expect from home
The "sugar boat" Captayannis was at anchor at the Tail of the Bank when it was driven northwards by a storm and turned on its side on a sandbank midway between Greenock and Helensburgh, forming a large shipwreck which is still visible in the middle of the firth.
Bairdstravel passed the Sugarboat on route to see the the QE2
docked in Greenock. Andy at the time was a great fan of the Rugrats.
Young Andy on our boat trip from Helensburgh to see the QE2 . which was docked in Greenock.
FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM HELENSBURGH John Logie Baird: Inventor of the television was born in the town on 13 August 1888. Bob McGregor: Olympic Silver medalist in the 100m freestyle at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He was also captain of GB Olympic squad for Mexico in 1968. Walter Smith: Former manager of the Scottish National Football Team and current Manager of Rangers FC. Kenny Hyslop: drummer in Slik and Simple Minds. With each band, he recorded a hit single: with the first band, Forever And Ever, in 1975, and with the latter, the New Wave song "Promised You a Miracle", in 1982. Tom Vaughan: Film and television director (Starter for 10, What Happens in Vegas) grew up in the town and produced his first amateur films there. Robbie Coltrane: Famous actor has residence just above the town. Was Hagrid in Harry Potter movies. Eilidh Steel: Famous folk musician born in Helensburgh.
Captured this stunning Sunset below on Nov 2010 at Rhu. Rhu is a village and historic parish on the east shore of the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
It lies north-west of the town of Helensburgh on the Firth of Clyde, in the historic county of Dunbartonshire. Like many settlements in the area, it became fashionable in the nineteenth century as a residence for wealthy Glasgow shipowners and merchants.
Rhu and Shandon Parish Church dates from 1851 and stands on the site of an eighteenth century predecessor. Amongst those buried in the kirkyard is Henry Bell, whose Comet was the world's first commercially successful steamship. In 1851 the marine engineer Robert Napier built the statue which today marks Bell's grave
Rhu is a base for yachting. It includes a point, just opposite another point near Rosneath, which forms what is known as either the "Rhu Narrows" or the "Rosneath Narrows" at the mouth of the Gare Loch. Locals call it the "spit" (they say that before dredging it was possible to do this across the water). The loch would have been cut off and a lagoon formed if the "longshore drift" was allowed to occur naturally. Groynes prevent this from happening
Rhu was the birth Place of Moses McNeil (October 29, 1855,in Rhu, Argyll and Bute – April 9, 1938, in Dumbarton) was a Scottish professional footballer who was one of the founding members of Rangers Football Club. He played as a winger