Eric Arthur Blair Posted March 26, 2019 Report Share Posted March 26, 2019 Glen St, 1959 Love St top left, Glen Lane bottom right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted March 26, 2019 Report Share Posted March 26, 2019 Glen Lane 1958. Stevensons Aerated Waters, of the famous Donoghue v Stevenson case, is on the right near the junction with St. James's Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 26, 2019 Report Share Posted March 26, 2019 34 minutes ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Glen St, 1959 Love St top left, Glen Lane bottom right. Glen St looks better then than it does now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 New statue at top of Abercotn St...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 4, 2019 Report Share Posted April 4, 2019 View of the jail from the Town Hall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 4, 2019 Report Share Posted April 4, 2019 Engineering works in Renfrew |Rd where the Lidl etc is being built. You can see the Reid Kerr College on the left in the distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Rep Posted April 6, 2019 Report Share Posted April 6, 2019 On 4/5/2019 at 12:20 AM, Eric Arthur Blair said: Engineering works in Renfrew |Rd where the Lidl etc is being built. You can see the Reid Kerr College on the left in the distance. Fudgie hudgie and Barclay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamlet Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Johnny Rep, exactly my first thoughts when I saw the photo but it was nicknamed Fudgy, Hudgie and Budgie. They were on both sides of Renfrew Road. Passed it to get to Love Street over Footbridge in Abercorn Street. Keep photos coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Union St. "Where's that?" some might ask. It's now the wee road off Stock Street going down to St. Charles church. The car parked outside the pub (and something I've noticed in the pictures I've posted, almost every corner has a pub!!!) is in Great Hamilton Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Canal Station on the right, Robertson's factory in the middle, Iain Banks' inspiration running to the bottom left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 7 hours ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Canal Station on the right, Robertson's factory in the middle, Iain Banks' inspiration running to the bottom left. With Camphill‘s “old” tenements at the top right... and... the espedair burn looping round the foot of Saucel hill at the bottom before tunnelling under the buildings (and Canal rail lines) to the Cart. only once, did I ever summon enough courage to go right along the pipe work lining the sides, in that tunnel, to reach the Cart.. pitch dark, slippy, smelly and rat infested. And then return... i guess it must still be there. I still see its black exit yawning into the River. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 West End looking towards Well St from Castle St. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 3 hours ago, antrin said: the espedair burn looping round the foot of Saucel hill at the bottom before tunnelling under the buildings (and Canal rail lines) to the Cart. only once, did I ever summon enough courage to go right along the pipe work lining the sides, in that tunnel, to reach the Cart.. pitch dark, slippy, smelly and rat infested. And then return... i guess it must still be there. I still see its black exit yawning into the River. Article mentioning the Espedair Burn here. https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/article/tunnelling-tanya-breaks-through-in-paisley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 3 hours ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Article mentioning the Espedair Burn here. https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/article/tunnelling-tanya-breaks-through-in-paisley Interesting, Tom. Ta for that, too. I also notice in your latest view of 'Well Street' fae Castle Street, there's one of those new-fangled Belisha pole pedestrian crossings, but with no zebra stripes on the road surface... and an auld bloke teetering on the pavement, unsure whether or not to suicidally dash into all that traffic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 My first place of work.https://canmore.org.uk/site/164802/paisley-renfrew-road-vulcan-works?display=collection&collection_items_page=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 Junction of Bank St and Mill St. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 I don't get it, Eric, Arfur… Bank street and Mill street? Never cheek by jowl, I thought... And I also don't recognise the chippie and I usetae walk to McKerrell street every other day from Barr Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 1 hour ago, antrin said: I don't get it, Eric, Arfur… Bank street and Mill street? Never cheek by jowl, I thought... Pfffttt Auld duffer. Bank St and Mill St STILL form a junction. It's where the Salvation Army building is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 1 hour ago, antrin said: I don't get it, Eric, Arfur… Bank street and Mill street? Never cheek by jowl, I thought... And I also don't recognise the chippie and I usetae walk to McKerrell street every other day from Barr Street. I also refer you to this picture where you can clearly see Bank St running past the East School, crossing Mill St and onward to the New Town Cross with Gauze St/Silk St/Cotton St. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 On 4/5/2019 at 12:20 AM, Eric Arthur Blair said: Engineering works in Renfrew |Rd where the Lidl etc is being built. You can see the Reid Kerr College on the left in the distance. https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/record/hes/164802/paisley-renfrew-road-vulcan-works/rcahms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Pfffttt Auld duffer. Bank St and Mill St STILL form a junction. It's where the Salvation Army building is. Fair cop, Guv! That wee detached bit of Bank Street's like an excised, abandoned, forlorn and decaying foreskin... (I imagine.) Still, cannae recall a chippy, there. Any idea when the pic was taken? Edited April 9, 2019 by antrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 8 minutes ago, antrin said: Fair cop, Guv! That wee detached bit of Bank Street's like an excised, abandoned, forlorn and decaying foreskin... (I imagine.) Still, cannae recall a chippy, there. Any idea when the pic was taken? No I don't know when it was taken. I've enlarged the aerial shot. The chippy is circled in yellow (and you can see the advertising boards arrowed.) Bank St is in red, the back courts of the "council buildings" side of Mill St is in blue and Cochran St is green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted April 15, 2019 Report Share Posted April 15, 2019 On 3/7/2019 at 12:41 AM, Desperately Seeking Susans said: On the top left hand corner ( the aerial photograph) is my old school - the West. Did anyone go to it during the late 1950s early 60s? Aye me auld yin. You’ll remember me. Lived at 81 George Street. Went to the West primary 59 till 65. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langbank Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 Aye me auld yin. You’ll remember me. Lived at 81 George Street. Went to the West primary 59 till 65. Yeah me too 62 - 66. Lived Maxwellton Road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 Ok,then. me, too! until the year Saints won the cup! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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