HSS 11,879 Report post Posted May 7, 2020 1 hour ago, antrin said: Peesweepish? (never ever dreamed I’d type that.....) It’s now called Lapwing Lodgeish. (likewise.......) 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuddieinEK 8,635 Report post Posted May 8, 2020 Gone yerselvesish!Just by Hartflield Farm, Glennifer Braes... Just beyond Peesweepish Lapwing Lodgeish. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
salmonbuddie 3,286 Report post Posted May 8, 2020 https://www.paisley.org.uk/paisley-history/usaf-world-war-2-p-47d-thunderbolt-air-crash-on-the-gleniffer-braes/ 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buddymarvellous 494 Report post 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. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuddieinEK 8,635 Report post 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. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
salmonbuddie 3,286 Report post 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. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Original 59er 1,015 Report post Posted May 11, 2020 Paisley Centre 1936 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Original 59er 1,015 Report post Posted May 11, 2020 Just before Saints made their mark on the town! Paisley and surrounds 1580's 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cookie Monster 1,178 Report post Posted May 13, 2020 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antrin 4,770 Report post 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) 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eric Arthur Blair 6,216 Report post Posted May 13, 2020 Corner of Canal St and Barr St 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antrin 4,770 Report post 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. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cookie Monster 1,178 Report post 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.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. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Original 59er 1,015 Report post 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! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antrin 4,770 Report post 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... 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billyg 5,781 Report post 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. Was it the Topper that had Colonel Blink , the short-sighted gink and Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller ? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HSS 11,879 Report post Posted May 19, 2020 I ate a pile of Comics when I was a wean. I later farted a Beezer,Topper and a Scorcher. 💨💨💨 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antrin 4,770 Report post Posted May 19, 2020 3 hours ago, billyg said: Was it the Topper that had Colonel Blink , the short-sighted gink and Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller ? Blink was the Beezer. And, had to look up Nancy before I recognised her, but she WAS in the Topper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_(comic_strip) here’s a link about Col Blink... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Blink Good memory! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cookie Monster 1,178 Report post Posted May 19, 2020 Blink was the Beezer. And, had to look up Nancy before I recognised her, but she WAS in the Topper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_(comic_strip) here’s a link about Col Blink... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Blink Good memory! Amazing memory. It's so pleasing to know that even at your age, you could remember how Google worked. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antrin 4,770 Report post Posted May 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Cookie Monster said: Amazing memory. It's so pleasing to know that even at your age, you could remember how Google worked. Not that hard... I helped in its creation. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cookie Monster 1,178 Report post Posted May 20, 2020 Not that hard... I helped in its creation. That explains the German looks you posses.So I'll guess you were some kind of debugger. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antrin 4,770 Report post Posted May 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Cookie Monster said: That explains the German looks you posses. So I'll guess you were some kind of debugger. Do you mean “doppelgänger”? (and “possess”? ). 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
faraway saint 30,143 Report post Posted May 20, 2020 8 minutes ago, antrin said: Do you mean “doppelgänger”? (and “possess”? ). More like "dangleberry"? (Is that a real word?) Glad to see you're trying to grasp the advantages of a suitable emoji. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cookie Monster 1,178 Report post Posted May 20, 2020 Do you mean “doppelgänger”? (and “possess”? ). No and yes. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antrin 4,770 Report post Posted May 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Cookie Monster said: That explains the German looks you posses. So I'll guess you were some kind of debugger. And for the purpose of clarity, "I am not de bugger you were looking for...". 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites