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

[insaintee]

2 hours ago, pod said:

Interesting that the elderslie line goes to Kilmarnock rather than to Ayr! Trying to think where on the Ayr line that turn of would be.  Beith perhaps?

[pod]

1 hour ago, insaintee said:

Interesting that the elderslie line goes to Kilmarnock rather than to Ayr! Trying to think where on the Ayr line that turn of would be.  Beith perhaps?

Dalry…...….https://www.railscot.co.uk/Glasgow_Paisley_Kilmarnock_and_Ayr_Railway/index.php

Edited August 23, 2019 by pod

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Tremendous clip of tramcars in the 50s, a large part of which focuses on Paisley and renfrew.

 

[smcc]

I'd love to see this but the link does not work!

[antrin]

1 hour ago, smcc said:

I'd love to see this but the link does not work!

Seems ok for me.  haven't clicked it to play yet (I'm listening to the match) but the image is of a tram at passing the Cenotaph.  I think.

 

Are you getting that?

[HSS]

2 hours ago, smcc said:

I'd love to see this but the link does not work!

Working for me.

[smcc]

https://www.blackandwhitearmy.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=embed&url=https://www.facebook.com/william.thomson.3954/videos/10220439338837395/#

This is the link, which takes me back to EAB's post. I eventually managed to find the trams by deleting the first part of the link, leaving me with this :- https://www.facebook.com/william.thomson.3954/videos/10220439338837395/#

[antrin]

Just watched that tram fillum!

(The link IS  fine.)

 

brilliant.  So many views of a long-gone Paisley and nearby.  

What I found remarkable are those ghost streets: wide, open and empty avenues WITH NO CARS PARKED AND CLUTTERING EVERYWHERE UP.

ta for that.  

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

View from Drums Avenue looking down Drums Crescent towards McKenzie Street.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Junction of Weir St and Incle St

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Old Sneddon St...now the Argyle Bar.

 

 

[FTOF]

On 6/23/2019 at 9:52 PM, Eric Arthur Blair said:

I've still got that single.

[FTOF]

On 7/16/2019 at 8:55 AM, Eric Arthur Blair said:

Gordon St

When did the bus station shut down?

I remember getting a Single decker Western bus in 1983 from Paisley to Newquay. Just an ordinary every day single decker without seat headrests and no bog.

Probably shouldn't have taken such a big carry out, given the lack of toilet facilities. Never have I been so glad to see Carlisle bus station.

[Eric Arthur Blair]

1 hour ago, FTOF said:

I've still got that single.

A guy in the Wee Howff on Saturday had that on a t-shirt.

[Eric Arthur Blair]

More of Weir St

[Eric Arthur Blair]

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Renfrew Rd into Weir St

[DougJamie]

 Paisley in 1964 

[Tommy]

On 9/30/2019 at 5:45 PM, FTOF said:

.When did the bus station shut down?

I remember getting a Single decker Western bus in 1983 from Paisley to Newquay. Just an ordinary every day single decker without seat headrests and no bog.

Probably shouldn't have taken such a big carry out, given the lack of toilet facilities. Never have I been so glad to see Carlisle bus station.

I went to Newquay in 1974 from the Babcock social club in Renfrew. Bus was like you,r but lucky for us there was a pick up in Glasgow.

Went again the following year but didn't make the same mistake   

 

[Isle Of Bute Saint]

On 9/30/2019 at 5:45 PM, FTOF said:

When did the bus station shut down?

I remember getting a Single decker Western bus in 1983 from Paisley to Newquay. Just an ordinary every day single decker without seat headrests and no bog.

Probably shouldn't have taken such a big carry out, given the lack of toilet facilities. Never have I been so glad to see Cit. arlisle bus station.

No wonder that journey is etched in your head how long did the journey to Newquay take and was it worth 

[eastlandssaint]

https://www.facebook.com/TheOnlyWayIsPaisleysPast/

[Tommy]

On 10/9/2019 at 11:53 AM, Isle Of Bute Saint said:

No wonder that journey is etched in your head how long did the journey to Newquay take and was it worth 

For me it took around 15 hrs in total. Left at 6pm arriving around 9am. No motorway after Bristol didn't help.

Drove it around 1992 through the night in about 9hrs/ 10hrs I think.

[Isle Of Bute Saint]

9 minutes ago, Tommy said:

For me it took around 15 hrs in total. Left at 6pm arriving around 9am. No motorway after Bristol didn't help.

Drove it around 1992 through the night in about 9hrs/ 10hrs I think.

The things you can do when young. I took my wife on a driving Holiday VW Polo in 1987 to Europe we did Holland, Germany Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria. We did it in 10 days 3,000. Could not dream of doing that now. 

[Tommy]

1 hour ago, Isle Of Bute Saint said:

The things you can do when young. I took my wife on a driving Holiday VW Polo in 1987 to Europe we did Holland, Germany Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria. We did it in 10 days 3,000. Could not dream of doing that now. 

Well done you 👍  I hired a car for 3 days in Menorca around 24 years ago and didn't enjoy it 1 bit, and have never driven abroad since 

[Isle Of Bute Saint]

31 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Well done you 👍  I hired a car for 3 days in Menorca around 24 years ago and didn't enjoy it 1 bit, and have never driven abroad since 

Love Mahon have been a few holiday's in minorca by the beach ,  being in the capital by the water was brilliant.