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I would like to state categorically that I have no interest whatsoever either in cricket or in this thread.
Have to agree with Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes(couldn't you have picked a shorter name)
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I remember Zowies. I was there once at the Opening Night as my mate was going out with a Barmaid there. It was ok but very, very small. Not enough game for the hunter
Didn't know she was two timing me.
Was that the big blondy one
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There was Zowies and Backchat which I think were the same place.There was also a Snooker club which we used to visit for its all day Sun license.There was also a pub called The Saints which later on became Watsons.
That's right Zowies, a seedy looking place,nice barmaid.
Wasn't anywhere close with my name guess.
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Forbes Place is one area of the Town that has benefited greatly from a make over.Used to be a dump when I was young.It was part of Paisleys night life scene in the 80's with a few entertainment venues.Anybuddie name them?
There was one right on the corner.Think it had a girls name.Carrie's or something like that.
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PICTURE 43 is ....
Uniform design with nos. 4 to 20 (even) and 13 and 15
Forbes Place. Built as shawl warehouse by James Forbes
shawl manufacturer.
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PICTURE 41 also shows another image which has nothing to do with the Toll Booth. Close up is PICTURE 42. Anyone know what the wording is on this Stane
?Eyesight not as good as it use to be.
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Yeah the Douslan Stane was on Neilston Road and the stone was origionally out side the pub next to the bus stop I used to go to school. I thought they had moved it to Barshaw, Do they still do Sma'Shot day? I thought it had died out due to lack of interest
Did it not die out at one time and get reinstated years later?
Yes. RickMcD
But I think insaintee was referring to the present day.
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Yeah the Douslan Stane was on Neilston Road and the stone was origionally out side the pub next to the bus stop I used to go to school. I thought they had moved it to Barshaw, Do they still do Sma'Shot day? I thought it had died out due to lack of interest
No lack of interest when it was revived in 1986 after a gap of 11 years.Still very popular.
http://www.paisley.o...-shot-day-2011/
and this years.
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The stone was the meeting place of the Weavers Union in the South of Paisley and was also used as a "soapbox". It was later moved to its present location in Brodie Park. Also present, arranged around the Dooslan Stane, are the four original Paisley Tolbooth stones. The Dooslan Stane is still used today as the congregating point for the annual Sma' Shot parade which takes place on the first Saturday in July.
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In that case, I'll say no more, at present.
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PICTURE 41 CLUE is .....
(This one is for you Sid
)Any connection with Sma Shot Day
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Button it you - Pod only guessed it because I said it was on the one way system
Only providing the info Eddy.
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PICTURE 39 CLUE
Description: 20, 22 Back Sneddon Street and 13 Maxwell Street
Category: B
Date Listed: 27 June 1980
Historic Scotland Building ID: 38921
OS Grid Coordinates: 248278, 664353
Latitude/Longitude: 55.8485, -4.4250
Location: 6 Maxwell Street, Renfrew PA3 2DA
Locality: 6 Maxwell Street
County: Renfrewshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: PA3 2DA
Listing Text
T G Abercrombie, architect, dated 1898 Scots Renaissance.
T-plan asymmetrical. Snecked rubble and stugged ashlar with
polished ashlar dressings. Elevation to Back Sneddon Street,
2 storeys, 3 recessed bays at left, off centre entrance
with pilastered and corniced Jacobean doorpiece with
cartouche over, 6-light leaded window to stair in right
bay, canted bay at ground floor in outer left bay. Projecting
gable end to west with corbelled bartisan with lead, bell-cast
roof and panelled gable-head stack. Return elevation:
2-storey and attic. 5-bay block with 3 round arched windows
at ground; lights 1-2-1-2-1 in 1st & 3 segmentally pedimented
dormers. Stair tower adjoining with upper window breaking
through eaves and pyramidal roof. 1 additional gabled bay
to east. Variety of window designs, slate roofs and
corniced stacks.
References:
Information from David M Walker
Notes:
Built as welfare offices. Still used by District Council.
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Was it a racist Sunday School then ?
Have to ask slartibardfast
But it's possible he's colour blind.
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Is it the building halfway down Storrie Street that used to be my Sunday School 40 years ago?
Wrong colour.
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Might be right.
Wrong type of windows.Square at top.Grammar round at top.
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Silverburn Tesco ran out yesterday afternoon, got a new delivery last night when I was in the supermarket. The amount of people coming in for fuel only and just turning around as it was closed was unbelievable, must have been 10 people as I was leaving.
It was open again this morning and swamped. At 8am usually has 2 or 3 cars max- the queue for every pump was again 2 or 3 deep.
In the mean time, plenty of overtime for the tanker drivers.
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Wish I could tell you more about PICTURE 36 but I can't. As FS indicated it was used by a law firm for many, many years. I dont know when it was built but would guess the 1920's. Hopefully in due course more info will come to light but I always thought it was a great building and so different in architecture than most buildings in the town.
Another building by the distinguished J. Steel Maitland
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Don't know it's origin.But did it once have connections with the court building.
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The only listed industrial chimney in Paisley, if not the West of Scotland.
Great picture sonny
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I think Paisleys homeless females were put up in that building in the 80s.
and there's bluto thinking they were nurses.
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I only know that I took two different women who were nurses back to there. Dunno the Oakshaw place. And there was also nursing accommodation up Calside, first entrance on left to RAI.
Memories...
You'll probably be right bluto.Apologises
I was thinking more it's original use.
Building News 1 November 1901 Page 587
'PAISLEY._ In memory of Mrs Archibald Coats, who took a warm interest in the Scottish Girls' Friendly Society, a club and institute, to be used in connection with the society's operations at Paisley, have been erected in New_street, and. the buildings were formally opened last week by Lady Georgina Home Drummond. The main building will be utilised as a club, while adjoining it is the institute, which will be devoted to educational purposes. The ground floor 0:1 the._ club' contains the matron's apartments, dining: and sitting_rooms for residents, besides kitchen, and laundry accommodation. The first floor has five single_bedded rooms, two rooms with four beds in each, and two rooms divided by screens into four cubicles each. The second floor is similar in arrangement, and both are equipped with lavatory accommodation. The educational institution stands back 30 feet from New_street. On the ground floor are two classrooms, measuring 19 feet by 18 feet, and 18feet by 15:feet, separated by a sliding partition, so that the two rooms can be thrown into one when occasion requires. There are also cloakrooms and lavatory. Upstairs, the first floor is similarly arranged, with addition of superintendent's retiring_room. The buildings are erected of Locharbriggs red stone, style being a free treatment of the Scottish domestic type of architecture. Mr T G. Abercombie, Paisley; was the architect.'
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Agree wi Willie.
Nurses used to stay in it.
I was never allowed "indoors"... Ooh matron...
I thought it was to house girls from the Highlands and the Isles that came to Paisley to work in the Coats Mills.
The nursing one your referring to, I think is in Oakshaw.
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The Taxi rank in the centre of the square was built when the railway station opened in 1840. Before then, cabs were not available for hire in the street and had to be sent for.
The small shelter seen in this picture was known as the 'Cabman's Rest'. It provided non-alcoholic refreshments for the cab drivers and was donated in 1877 by Mrs Jane Arthur of Barshaw. This was in response to public concerns about cab drivers drinking in public houses between fares!
She also made donation for the poor house (Model).Arthur Street was named after her husband.
Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.
in General Nonsense
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Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd of Kilmarnock
Hygeine Fountain
http://futuremuseum.co.uk/Collection.aspx/glenfield_kennedy/Object/public_drinking_fountain
http://futuremuseum....nfield_kennedy/