Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.

[Albanian Buddy]

1 hour ago, Cookie Monster said:

8 hours ago, ALBIONSAINT said:

The court? 

Last Post.

His or yours? Or mine? 😜 Let the jury decide! See what I did there?

[faraway saint]

24 minutes ago, Albanian Buddy said:

His or yours? Or mine? 😜 Let the jury decide! See what I did there?

The three, or 4, o ye would be good. 😜

[faraway saint]

Great pic, impressive. 

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[Eric Arthur Blair]

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[Albanian Buddy]

1 minute ago, Eric Arthur Blair said:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Paisleyscotlamd/permalink/10163058538607802/

What’s your recommendation for an Indian restaurant sit down and also takeaway these days in Paisley or Renfrewshire?

I have been recently to Indian Scene (formerly Shezan tandoori) and it was good. 

[ALBIONSAINT]

6 hours ago, Albanian Buddy said:

What’s your recommendation for an Indian restaurant sit down and also takeaway these days in Paisley or Renfrewshire?

I have been recently to Indian Scene (formerly Shezan tandoori) and it was good. 

Still pretty decent 👍🏻

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[Eric Arthur Blair]

Greenhill Road showing the flats which occupy the ground the stadium is now built upon.

IIRC Santaponsa Saint lived in one of them. My old school near the top of the picture.

 

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[faraway saint]

Going up the town to see the lights was always a highlight when I was a boy.

Abbey Close

This weeks image from the Heritage Centre is of the Christmas lights at and from Abbey Close, c.1965. The 'Close' was absolutely full of illuminations with various features - a Spaceship, a Maypole, a Caterpillar, performing Sea Lions, Ladybirds Etc., but the best feature was possibly the wee 'Living Room' where you'd put a donation into a collection box (Provosts Coal Fund ?) to light the Fire and the 'Big Light'. The whole river, from Abbey Bridge (Bridge Street) to Abercorn Bridge (Old Sneddon Street), was illuminated with garlands of lights strung across, Dunn Square was ablaze with lights, and the gardens areas of Smithhills Street full of lit and decorated features too, and featured a view of an Spot lit Paisley Prison. On top of all of that each of the Street light covers was coloured with each a different Colour, as were, as many will remember, the Four faces of the Town Hall Clock. Today........ ?

 

 

[faraway saint]

I don't even remember this never mind attend, although I was only 16-17.

Paisley festival, 1975? 

 

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[faraway saint]

Attending the Minors on a Saturday was the law. 

It’s as simple as ABC

We are the boys and girls well known as

Minors of the ABC

And every Saturday we line up

To see the films we like

And shout aloud with glee

We love to laugh and have a sing-song

Just a happy crowd are we

We’re all pals together

We’re minors of the ABC.

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[faraway saint]

What a building. With a bit of imagination, it could still be something special.............................suggestions? 

Paisley Prison

Paisley Jail as captured at Christmas 1964 by Paisley photographer the late Harry Hornby. Taken from Smithills Street it was built in 1822 and closed as a prison in 1888. Part of it served as the Police Station until it was knocked down 1968. It survived a number of attempt at demolition due to its poor condition and cost of maintainance, and having being saved previously by the outbreak of WWII, it did eventually succumb to Town Planners in the latter half of the 1960's

[FTOF]

On 12/23/2023 at 2:37 PM, faraway saint said:

Going up the town to see the lights was always a highlight when I was a boy.

Abbey Close

This weeks image from the Heritage Centre is of the Christmas lights at and from Abbey Close, c.1965. The 'Close' was absolutely full of illuminations with various features - a Spaceship, a Maypole, a Caterpillar, performing Sea Lions, Ladybirds Etc., but the best feature was possibly the wee 'Living Room' where you'd put a donation into a collection box (Provosts Coal Fund ?) to light the Fire and the 'Big Light'. The whole river, from Abbey Bridge (Bridge Street) to Abercorn Bridge (Old Sneddon Street), was illuminated with garlands of lights strung across, Dunn Square was ablaze with lights, and the gardens areas of Smithhills Street full of lit and decorated features too, and featured a view of an Spot lit Paisley Prison. On top of all of that each of the Street light covers was coloured with each a different Colour, as were, as many will remember, the Four faces of the Town Hall Clock. Today........ ?

 

 

During the Paisley Fair, the Xmas lights reappeared at Rothesay.

The flamingo ones were the ones I remember seeing in both locations.

 

[faraway saint]

4 minutes ago, FTOF said:

During the Paisley Fair, the Xmas lights reappeared at Rothesay.

The flamingo ones were the ones I remember seeing in both locations.

 

It was just something special. 

We didn't have much money but I seem to recall popping some pennies in a wee wooden donations box?