smcc Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 24 minutes ago, HSS said: You can see where the entrance has been bricked off on the Main Rd. And the gate in the wall leading onto the cycle track, opposite number 43 Main Road, allowed access to the station signal box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamlet Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 12 hours ago, antrin said: And Love Street. What a photo, Antrim are you sure it is Love Street. Trying to trace my steps when I crossed the footbridge from Abercorn Street to New Sneddon Street but it is all a bit near the top of the photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 46 minutes ago, hamlet said: What a photo, Antrim are you sure it is Love Street. Trying to trace my steps when I crossed the footbridge from Abercorn Street to New Sneddon Street but it is all a bit near the top of the photo. Looks like Love Street, Springbank Road and the factory opposite the auld grun in Love Street to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted May 6, 2020 Report Share Posted May 6, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 That old Drover’s Road - the M8? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 That old Drover’s Road - the M8? No it's the old Renfrew Airport runway. [emoji6] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 I actually looked for signs of that before I settled on the old Drover's Road... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddieinEK Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 Anyone know where this is?Sad to see it broken since last time I saw it at the tail end of last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 Anyone know where this is?Sad to see it broken since last time I saw it at the tail end of last year.Yeah, it's on Facebook [emoji14] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 Peesweepish? (never ever dreamed I’d type that.....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted May 7, 2020 Report Share Posted May 7, 2020 1 hour ago, antrin said: Peesweepish? (never ever dreamed I’d type that.....) It’s now called Lapwing Lodgeish. (likewise.......) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddieinEK Posted May 8, 2020 Report Share Posted May 8, 2020 Gone yerselvesish!Just by Hartflield Farm, Glennifer Braes... Just beyond Peesweepish Lapwing Lodgeish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonbuddie Posted May 8, 2020 Report Share Posted May 8, 2020 https://www.paisley.org.uk/paisley-history/usaf-world-war-2-p-47d-thunderbolt-air-crash-on-the-gleniffer-braes/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddymarvellous Posted May 8, 2020 Report Share Posted May 8, 2020 2 hours ago, BuddieinEK said: Gone yerselvesish! Just by Hartflield Farm, Glennifer Braes... Just beyond Peesweepish Lapwing Lodgeish. I noticed you misspelled Gleniffer. This always brings out my pedant with my kids who say the word like Jennifer whereas I was brought up saying it the Paisley way with the stress on the second part of the word. I have a theory that all the non Paisley teachers at the new Camphill pronounced it the ‘Jennifer’ way and now I’ve lost the battle of the pronounciations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddieinEK Posted May 8, 2020 Report Share Posted May 8, 2020 I noticed you misspelled Gleniffer. This always brings out my pedant with my kids who say the word like Jennifer whereas I was brought up saying it the Paisley way with the stress on the second part of the word. I have a theory that all the non Paisley teachers at the new Camphill pronounced it the ‘Jennifer’ way and now I’ve lost the battle of the pronounciations. My bad.I shall atempt to retain that information.Gleniffer as in differ!Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonbuddie Posted May 8, 2020 Report Share Posted May 8, 2020 I noticed you misspelled Gleniffer. This always brings out my pedant with my kids who say the word like Jennifer whereas I was brought up saying it the Paisley way with the stress on the second part of the word. I have a theory that all the non Paisley teachers at the new Camphill pronounced it the ‘Jennifer’ way and now I’ve lost the battle of the pronounciations. Since I read this I've been having vague memories of people saying it that way when I was a kid. I might just start saying it the old way from now on just because... Digressing a wee bit, so apologies, but I think it's a lost cause, like sorbet. Everyone thinks sorbet's a French word so pronounces it 'sorbay' but it's from the same Farsi word as sherbet and the ending should sound like sherbet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original 59er Posted May 11, 2020 Report Share Posted May 11, 2020 Paisley Centre 1936 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original 59er Posted May 11, 2020 Report Share Posted May 11, 2020 Just before Saints made their mark on the town! Paisley and surrounds 1580's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted May 13, 2020 Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 13, 2020 Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 Ta, Buddie! happy days, my “auld hoose”and ye can still see the boolin green at the fit o Toonheid Terrace, (now beneath a Uni development), which SomeBuddie asked aboot a while back and I found an auld map with it showing... delving down a www wormhole from there, I encountered a little known Buddie, who grew up in the now demolished George Street tenements (before my time). He was a hero who should be better acknowledged. George Gibson https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/article/our-housing-heritage-george-gibson-the-man-who-built-paisley (Among many other places, he designed the great wee development in the picture) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted May 13, 2020 Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 Corner of Canal St and Barr St Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 14, 2020 Report Share Posted May 14, 2020 16 hours ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Corner of Canal St and Barr St The shop where I got my Beezer (Mon), Dandy (Tue), Beano (Thu), Topper (Fri) and hunners o ither things... Niice colouration, though my memory of these buildings was GREY not pretty pink/red stones... Definitely the tall building was VERY grey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted May 14, 2020 Report Share Posted May 14, 2020 The shop where I got my Beezer (Mon), Dandy (Tue), Beano (Thu), Topper (Fri) and hunners o ither things... Niice colouration, though my memory of these buildings was GREY not pretty pink/red stones... Definitely the tall building was VERY grey.The Topper, that brought back some good memories.[emoji106]Visited my Grandparents up the pend in Lady Lane on a Saturday before heading to watch the buds. Under the middle cushion of the suite would be my comic. [emoji16] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original 59er Posted May 19, 2020 Report Share Posted May 19, 2020 On 5/14/2020 at 4:52 PM, antrin said: The shop where I got my Beezer (Mon), Dandy (Tue), Beano (Thu), Topper (Fri) and hunners o ither things... Niice colouration, though my memory of these buildings was GREY not pretty pink/red stones... Definitely the tall building was VERY grey. I think the photo was one of these colouration jobs where they had a B&W original photo then some person sat in a back room somewhere and coloured in the more attractive reddish colour (and blue sky) that appears more homely than sooty black / grey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted May 19, 2020 Report Share Posted May 19, 2020 1 hour ago, The Original 59er said: I think the photo was one of these colouration jobs where they had a B&W original photo then some person sat in a back room somewhere and coloured in the more attractive reddish colour (and blue sky) that appears more homely than sooty black / grey! I agree. Probably that backroom person possibly had knowledge of the "Rid Buildins" tenements - (now student flats) on George Street at the other end of Barr Street. Lovely rid sandstone. If you are a nerd... then many of the same grey stones from the demolished Wee Lady Lane/West Buchanan Street/Sir Michael Street/Barr Street hooses were sharpened up, re-dressed and re-used for the entrances and ground floor walls of the new houses that were erected in Barr Place, Sir Michael Place, West Buchanan Place... Perhaps not a nerd, but (like me) someone really, deeply into orogenous zones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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