buddiecat Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 tease Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FS Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 The small shelter seen in this picture was known as the 'Cabman's Rest'. It provided free non-alcoholic refreshments for the cab drivers and was donated in 1877 by Mrs Jane Arthur of Barshaw. This was in response to public concerns about cab drivers drinking in public houses between fares! Apparently Shull's romantic letters proposing marriage, free pies and heavily subsidised season tickets for cab drivers were disposed of in the boating lake by Ms Arthur's butler... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted March 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 PICTURE 34 Clue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Sea Saint Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 PICTURE 34 Clue Might be wrong but is that just off New Street heading up the Palladium Pend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) . Edited February 14, 2016 by bluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) Agree wi Willie. Nurses used to stay in it. I was never allowed "indoors"... Ooh matron... I thought it was to house girls from the Highlands and the Isles that came to Paisley to work in the Coats Mills. The nursing one your referring to, I think is in Oakshaw. Edited March 27, 2012 by pod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pod Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) I only know that I took two different women who were nurses back to there. Dunno the Oakshaw place. And there was also nursing accommodation up Calside, first entrance on left to RAI. Memories... You'll probably be right bluto.Apologises I was thinking more it's original use. Building News 1 November 1901 Page 587 'PAISLEY._ In memory of Mrs Archibald Coats, who took a warm interest in the Scottish Girls' Friendly Society, a club and institute, to be used in connection with the society's operations at Paisley, have been erected in New_street, and. the buildings were formally opened last week by Lady Georgina Home Drummond. The main building will be utilised as a club, while adjoining it is the institute, which will be devoted to educational purposes. The ground floor 0:1 the._ club' contains the matron's apartments, dining: and sitting_rooms for residents, besides kitchen, and laundry accommodation. The first floor has five single_bedded rooms, two rooms with four beds in each, and two rooms divided by screens into four cubicles each. The second floor is similar in arrangement, and both are equipped with lavatory accommodation. The educational institution stands back 30 feet from New_street. On the ground floor are two classrooms, measuring 19 feet by 18 feet, and 18feet by 15:feet, separated by a sliding partition, so that the two rooms can be thrown into one when occasion requires. There are also cloakrooms and lavatory. Upstairs, the first floor is similarly arranged, with addition of superintendent's retiring_room. The buildings are erected of Locharbriggs red stone, style being a free treatment of the Scottish domestic type of architecture. Mr T G. Abercombie, Paisley; was the architect.' Edited March 27, 2012 by pod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 I only know that I took two different women who were nurses back to there. Dunno the Oakshaw place. And there was also nursing accommodation up Calside, first entrance on left to RAI. Memories... It was apparently girls from almost anywhere including the highlands and islands but they had all managed to get in the family way. No abortion in those days so they were sent far from home to hush it up and avoid shame in the family. That was very commonly believed and I always though it was true. The two nurses you took back there,Bluto, were maybe the only two who weren't pregnant. At least at the start of the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Anyone wanting a wee looky at inside and a gander roon the back can click here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 PICTURE 34 Clue That's the wall of Viennas outside toilet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 (edited) . Edited February 14, 2016 by bluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 I'm not quite that old... ETA: And maybe the ladies in question were not being wholly honest about their occupation... naaaah.... Well, you did tell them you were a pilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 I think Paisleys homeless females were put up in that building in the 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintargyll Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 is it not about time this thread was "pinned" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 I think Paisleys homeless females were put up in that building in the 80s. and there's bluto thinking they were nurses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 and there's bluto thinking they were nurses. bluto is probably talking about the 1880s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 The guy who owns Ashtree House converted todays building into flats.That would be 5 or 6 years ago.Think he kept one for himself and sold the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 I think Paisleys homeless females were put up in that building in the 80s. they were indeed my sister in law was put up in there when she left my brother and was disowned by her family, i was sent to do some work there in the 80's and was quized as to "what school i went to" by the woman who ran it , she was not happy when i said st mirins academy ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted March 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 I think Pod gave all the info you need from the Clue to PICTURE 34 - The Scotch Girls Home in Weighhouse Close. Just for the record here is PICTURE 34 (first image) PICTURE 35 is one building on a site that has several great buildings which will all appear in due course so could we just comment on the building in question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) . Edited February 14, 2016 by bluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted March 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 Dont believe you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) I do - can can see it from the window! (clue - it's been taken from a funny angle - very sneaky Sonny!) Edited March 28, 2012 by Eddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) . Edited February 14, 2016 by bluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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