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Does anyone remember the explosion at Brown & Polson in June 1964 when 4 workmen were killed.
The blackest event in the history of Brown & Polson took place at 6.40am on the 5th June, 1964, when the animal feed plant, a large building to the rear of the rear in Braids rd, was completely destroyed in a huge explosion.
Workers who had arrived for the 6.45am shift had to run for their lives. Local firemen, ambulance men and workers tore at the rubble in the search for casualties, while anxious relatives stood waiting for news. Four men were killed and four badly injured. A local policeman described the disaster, “I have seen terrible things during the war, but never anything like this.
I remember being awoke by the explosion and we used to live at the top of Braehead Road.
Was at primary school back then.
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Image 20 is in School Wynd but I cannot find any information on it. I hoped someone on here may have known. I was told years ago that it was either a Town House or was a warehouse but I don't know. Its a fine building anyway.
For the clue for PICTURE 21 it certainly is King Solomon and he is located in the High St. Anyone else have more info?
(For most High St shots I did not include the shop below as most of them are an eyesore and detract from the buildings above them but what do others think? )
PICTURE 21
History lesson
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Thanks Pod. I do use that site and found that entry but wasnt sure if it was the same building ie No 15. Was going to check the address next time I was in town as School Wynd / Oakshaw is jam packed with Listed buildings. The description could very well be the place but its described as being a originally a house and now a warehouse but it looks like flats to me so that put me off. If it is the same building it is two hundred years old and better than most of the houses in the schemes that are only 50 years old.
Sonny, building was Date Listed: 27 March 1985. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-39111-15-school-wynd-
So it's use has probably change since then.Hence flats.
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Image 20 is in School Wynd but I cannot find any information on it. I hoped someone on here may have known. I was told years ago that it was either a Town House or was a warehouse but I don't know. Its a fine building anyway.
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-39111-15-school-wynd-
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Tenament in School wind. I went to look at a lat there when I was just married
Think at one time(19th century)it has been a single house.
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As for Mirin/Mirren?Is one male and the other female with us having the female spelling?
Think it was down to people being slightly illiterate and wrote it down as it sounded.As often happens on here.
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I have been in the building in picture 19 just the once. And of course HSS and Pod correctly identified it as the Masonic Lodge in Maxwellton Rd.
I was invited to play snooker there one evening. It was a good night but they had (at that time) a custom of anyone that went to the bar had to offer everyone in the place a drink. Very noble and sociable but couldnt help thinking it would also generate many empty pay packets and alcoholics. Maybe its different now.
Sonny,I have also noticed a building of interest with mill connection,along the road from the lodge at No.78. Any photos.Little known building.
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On their badge there is "Mirrin"
We have "Mirren"
And the Cathedral has "Mirin".
How come?
They weren't very good at spelling.
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The slug was found in a bottle of ginger beer hence 'gie's a slug of yer ginger'
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That story is used in the safety reps course for offshore, I made the mistake in saying I came from Paisley and they made me stand up and tell the story .
Why.Do you have snails on the menu.
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Judging by appearances, does the building now belong to the university for student accommodation.
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bluto's map is from before it was built, if you look you'll see the PO further up Gilmour Street towards the Cross. Certainly looks like a goods yard on the map.
Not disputing that.Only saying P.O. was built on the square in front of goods yard, eventually.So that makes it behind the P.O.that was eventually built there. That became that stoatir of a pub.
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Good yard is where the carpark is at rear of pub(old post office) and there used to be cellar entrance between P.O. and station.
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Only been inside it once at a sunday serve,when I was in the boys brigade in Lady Lane.(10th).Many moons ago.
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no one has evidence of what THE contract actually says.
It is likely that it states Sky has 1st dibs on any OF games- no stronger than that, otherwise it would be implicitly demanding that the SPL "arrange" matters so that neither of the bigots gets relegated. And Sky is far too moral a company to contemplate such nefarious goings on.
No one outside the Old firm.
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Fountain Gardens Sonny. One entrance from Caledonia Street, the other from Love street. Spent a large part of my childhood there, in the fountain on them long hot summers, stubbing my toe on the decorative barnacles!!!!
In it's splendour quite a fantastic piece of work. Water spraying from everywhere and a great centrepiece for the gardens which were the best playground possible.
Took a bit of a hammering when the hurricane struck, quite a few massive trees came down but that was just a better place to play.
The staue is Rabbie Burns, I stupidly left my name on this but almost immediatly regretted it, spent 4 hours the following night trying to scrub it off.
What position did he play in.
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i wish RA would hurry up and buy the club as im sick of listening to rumours that Rankgers are going to buy over st.mirren and our beloved club will be lost forever
With what.
What rumours.
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Cochrane Galbraith was the original name for Arnott's in Paisley. Also there was(is?) a jewellers at the abbey called Gilhooley's and I a new a girl called Gillian Gilhooley.
Robert Cochrane & Son Department Store,before it became Arnott,s(which belong to House of Fraser).
From Evening Times
The media consultant and former Paisley journalist recalls: “I remember the department store when it was called Robert Cochran and Son, before Arnotts took over in the early Seventies.
“Arnotts as we know it now was not only an iconic building in Paisley, it was an iconic shop where you could get almost anything you needed. And it seemed there was always a shop assistant within touching distance to ask if you needed help, no matter where you were in the store. I always reckoned the Arnotts tearoom on the top floor had the best view in Paisley from any café or restaurant in the town.
Macdonald recalls: “Get yourself a window seat and you could enjoy the vista of Paisley Abbey and it’s grounds along with the fine architecture of Paisley Town Hall.”
The store had been owned by the House of Fraser retail chain. But the group struggled with multi-million pound debts from 1996 and at the turn of the millenium decided an Edinburgh developer’s offer of £2.1m was too good to turn down.
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Nice video insaintee. Its a better view than I thought it would be.
At about 19secs into the video the camera is pointing in the the direction of Well St and the Gas Works. However the view is obscured by the JNI and the church tower. If you look at the picture in question the angle is far steeper which indicates an almost vertical angle (75-80 degrees or thereabouts) and not the low angle if taken from Coates. The shot is also taken from a greater height in my opinion than Coates could offer. Good video though. Didnt realise the public could access the tower.
Believe you can access tower on ' Doors Open Days'.
Etc. 2011 and 2009 has shoots from tower of Coates ; http://uk.video.sear...s+Open+Day+2011
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Mirren House in Maxwell St.There used to be a pub called The Hole In The Wall Just next to it.
On Back Sneddon Street,which was split when ringroad was built,now reached via Maxwell St.
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I have now found a building in Arthur St which I thought was the place for the homeless however in this pic the building is listed as a warehouse. Anyone know anything about it?
Its the building on the extreme right,you can just catch the gable end,is where the homeless building was.
Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.
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