Bust Of Logie Bard, West Esplanade, West Clyde Street, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Bust. 1 related planning application.

Bust Of Logie Bard, West Esplanade, West Clyde Street, Helensburgh

WRENN ID
pale-wall-clover
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 June 1993
Type
Bust
OS grid reference
NS 291 823
Coordinates
56.00397, -4.74121
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The bust of John Logie Baird, created in 1961, is made of bronze and sits on a concrete plinth. On the south side of the plinth, there is a bronze plaque that reads, "John Logie Baird, Native of This Town, Inventor of Television, 1888-1946, They need no candle." The west side features another bronze plaque inscribed with "Erected by his friend J. Arnold Fleming," while the east side has a plaque that states it was "Unveiled by his sister and his son Malcolm."

Local climate

Bust Of Logie Bard, West Esplanade, West Clyde Street, Helensburgh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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