bluto Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Just back. Naw. £5.40 please. No need to go so far east - much closer to town.I didnae literally mean miles out.... Sorry if that propelled people to Ralston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Just back. Naw. £5.40 please. Aw right but yir no getting a tip ya grumpy auld baisturd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Aw right but yir no getting a tip ya grumpy auld baisturd I'll collect it on Sunday.Is it something to do with St Mirins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 I'll collect it on Sunday. Is it something to do with St Mirins? I don't think so. But that would fit with Bluto suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 I know you didn't mean it, but I found this most amusing! lol are they not called flamingos - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) up in the corner of big hoose road, no idea what it's use is though, could be a stable block or garage possibly the house belonged to a merchant who imported exotic fruit, or as per blutos' link just a sign of wealth or an architects trademark Edited March 14, 2013 by buddiecat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 The bird looks a bit like a Dodo. don't talk shit rick, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 up in the corner of big hoose road, no idea what it's use is though, could be a stable block or garage possibly the house belonged to a merchant who imported exotic fruit, or as per blutos' link just a sign of wealth or an architects trademark Well done Peter.Is that the house on the bend that has the wee summer house in the garden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Is it the nunnery on the corner of Corsebar and Ricketsbar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Well done Peter.Is that the house on the bend that has the wee summer house in the garden? yes john, i often wondered what it was but could be a wee summer house, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Glesca choo-choos pass nearby...? Eta: and another obscure clue... Verdant hill mhr But I could be miles out. Translated:Next to the rail line at junction of Greenlaw/verdant hill mhr/mansion house road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Translated: Next to the rail line at junction of Greenlaw/verdant hill mhr/mansion house road. wonder if it had something to do with the old "dummy railway" it's not the site of the paisley east station on that line but might have been part of a goods yard ? but probably just some well off dude with a fancy outhouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 wonder if it had something to do with the old "dummy railway" it's not the site of the paisley east station on that line but might have been part of a goods yard ? but probably just some well off dude with a fancy outhouseGarage.... However check out its date.Much older than vehicles... Eta: much older than I could have imagined. Late 18c. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-39045-38-mansion-house-road-garage- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Garage.... However check out its date. Much older than vehicles... Eta: much older than I could have imagined. Late 18c. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-39045-38-mansion-house-road-garage- yes much older than i'd have thought too, suggests on that page that it may have been a garden building for greenlaw house, which is listed at 30 mhr, looked on the bing birds eye view tab and it looks like it was prob part of the land for greenlaw house but newer houses built between the two now, and i reckon that the flat roof building behind it is the railway club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted March 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 Well done guys. PICTURE 120 is indeed the garage for a private house in Mansionhouse Road. Bluto has already given you the Listed Buildings link. The following information was provided by 'Paisley - Oor Wee Toun' 'It turns out that this building is the old coach-house of the former Greenlaw House Mansion (1774, belonged to Robert Corse, the building still stands, but has been separated into flats). Greenlaw House is on Mansionhouse Road, the road itself perhaps named after said ‘Mansion’. Someone told me years ago that they had heard of a connection between this building (garage/coach-house) and the Abbey, so I was intrigued for years before bothering to find out more! There may well be a connection, as the archaeological investigations in the 1990's around the 'Discovery of the Drain' at Paisley Abbey certainly prompted a lot of enquiry, opening old questions about how the water management system had been run by the monks of old, and how this may have extended beyond the Abbey's boundaries in the central part of the town. There is allegedly a drain under the house which now has this building in its' garden, but whetherthis alleged drain is connected to the excavated Paisley Abbey drain we may never know. A fascinating chapter by Ian Orkney in 'The Monastery and Abbey of Paisley', details what is called the 'Dowser's Tale'. In this chapter, he talks of how the monks made use of the 'Lady' or 'Cluny Burn' for water, and not the Hammils or more obvious water sources, as we might expect. It seems that the clever monks augmented their water supply by using the output from further springs, such as that at Mansionhouse/Greenlaw, the latter having come down from the hill in Barshaw. As Orkney states in his chapter, the only way of confirming would be excavation in the area of this posh garage, so of course we will probably never know for sure! The chapter is worth a read for those interested. The book mentioned is published by Renfrewshire Local History Forum ' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 It's magnificent - a wee jewel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 It's magnificent - a wee jewel! How did you work that one out bluto? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 It dawned on me that other than landmark trust's pineapple house at Drumore, there had to be mention of other similar buildings. I googled, but it took a helluva lot of digging to find - mainly cos of a gift shop in Minnesota... Paisley pineapple. Sheeeesh! Try it. V hard. If I had access to google street view I could have checked, but I don't have. Mansion House Road made me think that was a good guess. I don't recall ever seeing it. Next time I'm in toon, mibbe. A nice wee wander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 It dawned on me that other than landmark trust's pineapple house at Drumore, there had to be mention of other similar buildings. I googled, but it took a helluva lot of digging to find - mainly cos of a gift shop in Minnesota... Paisley pineapple. Sheeeesh! Try it. V hard. If I had access to google street view I could have checked, but I don't have. Mansion House Road made me think that was a good guess. I don't recall ever seeing it. Next time I'm in toon, mibbe. A nice wee wander. No you couldn't on street view you only get a glimpse of the building and not enough to have been certain. However the castilated gable is clearly visible on the satilite view, I'm just grumpy cos I never got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 I'm just grumpy cos I never got it.Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 It dawned on me that other than landmark trust's pineapple house at Drumore, there had to be mention of other similar buildings. I googled, but it took a helluva lot of digging to find - mainly cos of a gift shop in Minnesota... Paisley pineapple. Sheeeesh! Try it. V hard. If I had access to google street view I could have checked, but I don't have. Mansion House Road made me think that was a good guess. I don't recall ever seeing it. Next time I'm in toon, mibbe. A nice wee wander. i used to make the excuse that i had something in my eye to get off school and got sent to the eye infirmary down that street, and went in got an eyepatch and a wry smile from the nurse, then went out and wandered about before going back to school , i remember thinking at the time that it was an old castle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 i used to make the excuse that i had something in my eye to get off school and got sent to the eye infirmary down that street, and went in got an eyepatch and a wry smile from the nurse, then went out and wandered about before going back to school , i remember thinking at the time that it was an old castle Sorry Peter,I thought you had got it from blutos clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 Sorry Peter,I thought you had got it from blutos clue. nope, i never heard of verdant hill before and still wouldn't know where it is for sure, but assume it's barshaw golf course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vambo57 Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 Garage.... However check out its date. Much older than vehicles... Eta: much older than I could have imagined. Late 18c. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-39045-38-mansion-house-road-garage- Cheezuz! Check oot the descrpition of that magnificent building... I've learnt a few new words today! Later 18th century outbuilding. Gothick Ashlar front with rusticated quoins, partly vermiculated. Clustered colonnettes flank straight-headed pend with moulded ogee decoration over. Cornice above interrupted by 2 carved obelisks capped by pineapples over colonnettes. Blind quatrefoil in centre of battlemented gable. Colonnetted birdcage bellcote with weathervane. Slate roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vambo57 Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 Well done guys. PICTURE 120 is indeed the garage for a private house in Mansionhouse Road. Bluto has already given you the Listed Buildings link. The following information was provided by 'Paisley - Oor Wee Toun' 'It turns out that this building is the old coach-house of the former Greenlaw House Mansion (1774, belonged to Robert Corse, the building still stands, but has been separated into flats). Greenlaw House is on Mansionhouse Road, the road itself perhaps named after said ‘Mansion’. Someone told me years ago that they had heard of a connection between this building (garage/coach-house) and the Abbey, so I was intrigued for years before bothering to find out more! There may well be a connection, as the archaeological investigations in the 1990's around the 'Discovery of the Drain' at Paisley Abbey certainly prompted a lot of enquiry, opening old questions about how the water management system had been run by the monks of old, and how this may have extended beyond the Abbey's boundaries in the central part of the town. There is allegedly a drain under the house which now has this building in its' garden, but whetherthis alleged drain is connected to the excavated Paisley Abbey drain we may never know. A fascinating chapter by Ian Orkney in 'The Monastery and Abbey of Paisley', details what is called the 'Dowser's Tale'. In this chapter, he talks of how the monks made use of the 'Lady' or 'Cluny Burn' for water, and not the Hammils or more obvious water sources, as we might expect. It seems that the clever monks augmented their water supply by using the output from further springs, such as that at Mansionhouse/Greenlaw, the latter having come down from the hill in Barshaw. As Orkney states in his chapter, the only way of confirming would be excavation in the area of this posh garage, so of course we will probably never know for sure! The chapter is worth a read for those interested. The book mentioned is published by Renfrewshire Local History Forum ' looking closely at that photo and I'm sure theres wooden Venetian Blinds behind the windows... Somebody lives in it? Lucky sod... or maybe not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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