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  1. Originally New Templar Hall (1932)
  2. Something to do with or donated by ex-provost Archibald MacKenzie of Milliken
  3. Thought martyrs uprising was 1820.
  4. Private residence. http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/ilwwcm/publishing.nsf/Content/els-jh-HistoricBuildingsBlackhallManor
  5. You could be right,I think her name was Sarah.Don't think she was from Paisley. As for picture 46. Not a place I like visiting or in a hurry to visit personally.
  6. Gifted by George Hamilton of Blackland Mill. Blackland Mill(bleaching mill) was close to the bowling ground(of same name) on Braehead Road.
  7. Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd of Kilmarnock Hygeine Fountain http://futuremuseum.co.uk/Collection.aspx/glenfield_kennedy/Object/public_drinking_fountain http://futuremuseum....nfield_kennedy/
  8. Have to agree with Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes(couldn't you have picked a shorter name)
  9. Didn't know she was two timing me. Was that the big blondy one
  10. That's right Zowies, a seedy looking place,nice barmaid. Wasn't anywhere close with my name guess.
  11. There was one right on the corner.Think it had a girls name.Carrie's or something like that.
  12. Uniform design with nos. 4 to 20 (even) and 13 and 15 Forbes Place. Built as shawl warehouse by James Forbes shawl manufacturer.
  13. Eyesight not as good as it use to be.
  14. Yes. RickMcD But I think insaintee was referring to the present day.
  15. 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. http://www.seepaisle...y-2012-185.html
  16. 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.
  17. In that case, I'll say no more, at present.
  18. 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.
  19. Have to ask slartibardfast But it's possible he's colour blind.
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