Helensburgh, Clyde Street West, Esplanade, Monument To Henry Bell
Commemorative Monument (19th Century)
Site Name Helensburgh, Clyde Street West, Esplanade, Monument To Henry Bell
Classification Commemorative Monument (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Henry Bell Monument; West Clyde Street
Canmore ID 197521
Site Number NS28SE 109
NGR NS 29381 82323
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/197521
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Rhu
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS28SE 109 29381 82323
Monument [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, November 2009.
For monument to Henry Bell at Dunglass Castle (NS 4377 7353), see NS47SW 7.01.
For flywheel and anvil in Hermitage Park, Helensburgh (at NS 29855 82784), see NS28SE 236.
Field Visit (26 October 2017)
This commemorative monument, which is situated at the foot of James Street, on the esplanade between West Clyde Street and the Clyde estuary, has a fine outlook SSW to Greenock. Fashioned from a polished pink granite, it is a square-sectioned, tapering obelisk with a pyramidical top, set upon a pedestal above three broad sandstone plinths. The inscription on the lower tier of the pedestal reads as follows: ‘Erected In 1872 / To The Memory Of / Henry Bell / The First In Great Britain Who Was / Successful In Practically Applying Steam / Power For The Purposes Of Navigation / / Born In The County Of Linlithgow in 1768 / Died At Helensburgh In 1830’.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AMcC) 26 October 2017.
