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

[Cookie Monster 1,416]

Oh dear. That does read badly doesn't it. 

Depends on your outlook on life.


Hell yeah.

[oaksoft 13,643]

6 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:

Depends on your outlook on life.


Hell yeah.

There is no outlook on life whereby losing your virginity to Faraway could be presented as good. 🤣

There's polishing a turd and then there's that.

[rabuddies 1,403]

Camphill in Foxbar opened in August 1968 as did the Institution I was being educated in although it had turned into a High School?  As for football boots on a blaze pitch - what else could you wear?  There wasn't a range of sports shoes available in those days.  My first football boots circa 1963 had a moulded sole, covered the ankles and a round toe (and were about two sizes too big so I could grow into them).   I didn't get a "low cut", 6 stud boot (Mitre) until about 1967 and they lasted after leaving school and my final pair were early 70's (Slazenger I think) playing works football till the mid 70's when I knackered my knee and was told I could get a cartilage operation in about 7 or 8 years on the NHS if the pain got so bad I had trouble sleeping?  They said it was the fault of low cut football boots.  Only other options were gym shoes and baseball boots and try kicking a Mouldmaster with either of these.

I did get a pair of Adidas trainers in 1969 (Samba?) but they were part of the "hippy a bit" fashion scene and the never kicked a ball at that price??

 

[stlucifer 6,651]

19 hours ago, Slarti said:

Yeah, all I'm really picking up from this discussion is that there are a lot if auld cunts on this forum.

Too right.

And you're right up there with us!

[Cumbriansaint72 210]

4 hours ago, rabuddies said:

Camphill in Foxbar opened in August 1968 as did the Institution I was being educated in although it had turned into a High School?  As for football boots on a blaze pitch - what else could you wear?  There wasn't a range of sports shoes available in those days.  My first football boots circa 1963 had a moulded sole, covered the ankles and a round toe (and were about two sizes too big so I could grow into them).   I didn't get a "low cut", 6 stud boot (Mitre) until about 1967 and they lasted after leaving school and my final pair were early 70's (Slazenger I think) playing works football till the mid 70's when I knackered my knee and was told I could get a cartilage operation in about 7 or 8 years on the NHS if the pain got so bad I had trouble sleeping?  They said it was the fault of low cut football boots.  Only other options were gym shoes and baseball boots and try kicking a Mouldmaster with either of these.

I did get a pair of Adidas trainers in 1969 (Samba?) but they were part of the "hippy a bit" fashion scene and the never kicked a ball at that price??

 

In a very literal way given what there is available now, blaze pitches were all weather. Mind you when the athletics track appeared that was my cue to start to find ways to get out of the horror of athletics. 

[oaksoft 13,643]

9 minutes ago, Cumbriansaint72 said:

In a very literal way given what there is available now, blaze pitches were all weather. Mind you when the athletics track appeared that was my cue to start to find ways to get out of the horror of athletics. 

Not always.

I remember playing a school league match on a completely unplayable blaze pitch which was half covered in two inches of solid ice and the game went ahead. I was the only one without trainers and played with studs. I was like a newborn baby deer. Couldn't run, couldn't stop, couldn't turn. Amazing what kids were forced to play in those days.

[Cumbriansaint72 210]

Just now, oaksoft said:

Not always.

I remember playing a school league match on a completely unplayable blaze pitch which was half covered in two inches of solid ice and the game went ahead. I was the only one without trainers and played with studs. I was like a newborn baby deer. Couldn't run, couldn't stop, couldn't turn. Amazing what kids were forced to play in those days.

Character building😂

[Slarti 779]

Too right.
And you're right up there with us!

Naw, ah'm no' auld, ah'm just a c**t.

[Cookie Monster 1,416]

Naw, ah'm no' auld, ah'm just a c**t.

The Auld cnuts memories going.

[Slarti 779]

The Auld cnuts memories going.

Quiet, you young whippersnapper. In my day you would have been caned for such impudence. I'll "auld" you, you cheeky wee imp.

[Desperately Seeking Susans 1,480]

[Slarti 779]

Canal Street at Causeyside?

[antrin 5,036]

12 minutes ago, Desperately Seeking Susans said:

Wow!  the Afton’s getting another name change by the look of it!

is that the sem-mythical view of Wardrop Steet’s North end that you sought?

 

 

ps 

just noticed that pesky flying saucer still hovering above Barr Street!

Edited January 23 by antrin

[Desperately Seeking Susans 1,480]

21 minutes ago, Slarti said:

31 minutes ago, Desperately Seeking Susans said:

Canal Street at Causeyside?

Yes Sir.

19 minutes ago, antrin said:

Wow!  the Afton’s getting another name change by the look of it!

is that the sem-mythical view of Wardrop Steet’s North end that you sought?

 

 

ps 

just noticed that pesky flying saucer still hovering above Barr Street!

Nearly.  The tenements on the left are being built, it seems, according to the picture description.

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

On 1/23/2021 at 12:05 PM, antrin said:

is that the sem-mythical view of Wardrop Steet’s North end that you sought?

That's the south end of Wardrop St. As I told you only last week (and you replied!!!) the north end of Wardrop St is the junction with George St.

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

The phonebox from the picture two above still standing but the pub has gone.

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

Robertson's Jam factory just peeking through ton the left, Wellington Bar on the right.

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

Piazza construction, jail in the background.

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

Moss St, Urquhart's on the right.

[HSS 12,044]

38 minutes ago, Eric Arthur Blair said:

Robertson's Jam factory just peeking through ton the left, Wellington Bar on the right.

Any idea a year for this?

[antrin 5,036]

1 hour ago, Eric Arthur Blair said:

That's the south end of Wardrop St. As I told you only last week (and you replied!!!) the north end of Wardrop St is the junction with George St.

Fuxake!!!

I'm sorry! 

I even THOUGHT about it so I widnae f**kup again.  Sheesh!

 

Of course, it IS!

No more views of Wardrop Street, please.  I don't want to disappear up my own err(or)se...

[Eric Arthur Blair 6,517]

Any idea a year for this?

No mate, I just drove past there about half an hour ago, these shops must have been just to the right of the Craig Dhu.