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Henry Bell was known as the pioneer of steam navigation and when he came to live in Helensburgh in the early 1800s he found it an agreeable seaside town popular with Glasgow merchants.
His move to the town encouraged him in his project of designing a steamship and in 1812 he launched the Comet on the Clyde, the first practical passenger steamship in Europe.
Bell became the town’s first civic head and one of a number of distinguished
sons and daughters of Helensburgh which was named after the wife of Sir James Colquhoun of Luss who laid out the older part of the town in 1777.
It was also the birthplace of John Logie Baird, the television pioneer and other notable residents included Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister in 1922/23, Sir James Frazer the anthropologist as well as the authors George Blake, Neil
Numbers of red kites in Scotland are rising slowly - have you ever seen one of these birds flying wild in Scotland?
