GREENOCK ADVERTISER, FRIDAY 19TH APRIL 1844 THE COMMODORE STEAM-SHIP This favourite vessel, plying betwixt Glasgow and Liverpool, and belonging to that spirited concern, the City of Glasgow Steam Packet Company, has been undergoing a thorough repair during the last six months – her old engines being replaced by new ones, with new cylinders and boilers,Continue reading “The Commodore visits Robert Napier”
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A Drowning
CALEDONIAN MERCURY, SATURDAY 1 JULY 1837. MELANCHOLY EVENT On Monday evening, two individuals, a male and a female, lost their lives on the Gairloch, at Shandon, near Helensburgh, under the following painful circumstances:- it appears that two or three of a gentleman’s family residing in that neighbourhood, having been out in a boat fishing onContinue reading “A Drowning”
Robert Napier and his Art Collection
STIRLING OBSERVER, THURSDAY 19 MARCH 1846 THE FINE ARTS IN SCOTLAND (FROM THE LITERARY GAZETTE). In a late trip to Scotland, I was much gratified to find that a number of rich and eminent inhabitants of Glasgow and its neighbourhood had devoted much time and money to the collection of fine original paintings by theContinue reading “Robert Napier and his Art Collection”
Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 5
Dear blog reader This is the fifth part in a series of Shandon hatches, matches and dispatches that have appeared in the newspapers. I always find such finds very exciting in my own 30 years of family history research and I hope this helps anyone doing similar Shandon-based research. (Glossary: inst/instant means of the presentContinue reading “Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 5”
New Railway
GLASGOW HERALD. FRIDAY 11TH AUGUST 1882. PROPOSED GARELOCH DISTRICT RAILWAY. We understand that arrangements are in progress for the formation of a railway between Helensburgh, Garelochhead, and Portincaple on Loch Long. The undertaking is being promoted under influential auspices, and if carried into execution cannot fail to have an important effect in still further developing the picturesqueContinue reading “New Railway”
Shandon Hydropathic Hotel Visitors
HELENSBURGH NEWS, THURSDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 1880 SHANDON. SHANDON HYDROPATHIC. LIST OF VISTORS. Mr and Mrs Perrin, DublinMr and Mrs Reid, Mr J Reid, GlasgowMr J Kidd, Broughty FerryMr and Mrs Nimmo, Castle EdenMr and Mrs Turnbull, M Turnbull, EdinburghMr Charles Scott, DundeeMr J Scanlan, PollokshieldsMr and Mrs Cannent, EdinburghMr and Mrs George Green, LeicesterMr and Mrs Henderson,Continue reading “Shandon Hydropathic Hotel Visitors”
Christmas at Shandon Hydro Part 2
DUNDEE EVENING TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY 9TH DECEMBER 1904 CHRISTMAS AT THE HYDROPATHICS Spending Christmas at a hydropathic is now such a favourite mode of enjoyment that every year more and more people avail themselves of it as a relief from business and housekeeping cares. In spite of dull trade, there seems no falling off this year inContinue reading “Christmas at Shandon Hydro Part 2”
Christmas at Shandon Hydro Part 1
DUNDEE COURIER, SATURDAY 19TH DECEMBER 1903. THE HYDROS AT CHRISTMASTIDE. THEIR HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS. There are few pleasanter ways of spending a holiday than at a hydropathic, and nowadays it is quite a common thing for a whole family to betake itself at the Christmas season to one or of the establishments which abound on bothContinue reading “Christmas at Shandon Hydro Part 1”
Shandon in 1892
HELENSBURGH NEWS, THURSDAY 20TH OCTOBER 1892 SHANDON – MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY The members of this association held their first meeting on Friday last in the Reading Room, when the following office-bearers were elected: Hon. president Mr Wm Gibson,Greenhill; president Rev Hugh Miller; vice-presidents Messrs Allan, Neaves and Whillans; secretary Mr Thomas Vallance; treasurer Mr RobertContinue reading “Shandon in 1892”
Shandon Property
GLASGOW COURIER, THURSDAY 7TH MARCH 1844 GARELOCH: TO BE SOLD OR LET. Woodburn House, delightfully situated on Garelochside, near Shandon, and containing dining-room, parlour and five bedrooms, besides kitchen, laundry, water-closet, and cellars; with a very convenient set of offices. The grounds are tastefully laid out, and extend to about two acres. Feu duty, moderate.Continue reading “Shandon Property”
Shandon People and History 