zebrakid Posted April 7, 2016 Report Share Posted April 7, 2016 Excellent atricle in the Guardian on Paisley and the City of Culture Bid http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/15/paisley-uk-third-city-culture?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_content=buffer1d944&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sally02 Posted April 7, 2016 Report Share Posted April 7, 2016 Excellent atricle in the Guardian on Paisley and the City of Culture Bid http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/15/paisley-uk-third-city-culture?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_content=buffer1d944&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer Must agree! Well written piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalky1 Posted April 7, 2016 Report Share Posted April 7, 2016 Good Article, cheers for the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalrybud Posted April 7, 2016 Report Share Posted April 7, 2016 Pretty good but somewhat tarnished by the inevitable dig at the SNP beloved by the Grauniad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Excellent atricle in the Guardian on Paisley and the City of Culture Bid http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/15/paisley-uk-third-city-culture?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_content=buffer1d944&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer I enjoyed that. However as I got to the end of the article and I looked at the lovely picture of the mill and the Cart I couldn't help but think that the photographer had done well to get out of Paisley still in possession of the camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 How do you know that that the photographer managed to get out of Paisley?He doesn't, accuracy isn't important. He's just regurgitating a cheap dig at Paisley from a post he had in a thread years ago Same old fishing shite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaside Nipper Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 (edited) Was there a carpet factory in Paisley? Or are they referencing to Stoddards in Elderslie? After WW1 Paisley produced the bulk of all London cabs. William Beardmore & Co Ltd was Scotland’s largest engineering concern, and a division of the company built the first new post-war taxicab in Paisley, Glasgow. The cab was introduced in 1919 and because of its sturdiness and comfort it became known as the ‘Rolls-Royce of cabs’. You can still see one in the Transport museum. Beardmore also produced an airship (R34) which was the first ever to perform a return transatlantic flight from Abottsinch. No mention of the towns airport either.................shabby edit to add: that's right, we are a City already in any case, a suburb of Glasgow. Edited April 8, 2016 by Seaside Nipper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whydowebother Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Quite enjoyed that wee read Living in England we miss out on wee stories like this, thank you for the link. We can't even find out who was named in Scottish Sunday Mail 'Celeb named' story as household name sex scandal. Who was that ? So the chance of finding out wee Paisley related articles is close to nil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Yeah , Good stuff. I saw this article a few months ago and posted it on FB. The digs at the SNP are what you would expect from the Graun , wish he had made more of Paisleys long standing Love for Labour though & where its got us !! Hard to disagree on his opinion of the Gilmour street to Airport bus link , what an impression that must give to any departing passengers daft enough to travel on it. Overall though , it serves to remind us what we once had & hopefully may well recapture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 We can't even find out who was named in Scottish Sunday Mail 'Celeb named' story as household name sex scandal. Who was that ? You'd like to think they'd furnish you with a wee clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whydowebother Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Ha figured , sorry ( seems to be ) I should of realised Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 The carpet factory was just the other side of the railway bridge in Greenhill Road from SMP. I knew it as BMK, it may have been called something else before that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 The carpet factory was just the other side of the railway bridge in Greenhill Road from SMP. I knew it as BMK, it may have been called something else before that. There was also a Cooperage there if memory serves me right. Was the Carpet factory opposite the new(ish) flats ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 The carpet factory was just the other side of the railway bridge in Greenhill Road from SMP. I knew it as BMK, it may have been called something else before that. Think there was also one Caledonia Street/McDowall Street. Might have been another Stoddard's factory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Carpet factory was the place on the left Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Carpet factory was the place on the left That was originally the "4 Square" Cigarette Factory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 He doesn't, accuracy isn't important. He's just regurgitating a cheap dig at Paisley from a post he had in a thread years ago Same old fishing shite It was a decent joke FFS. You are in danger of becoming the new resident humourless bastard. ....and that is not a title I am willingly going to just hand over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Yeah , Good stuff. I saw this article a few months ago and posted it on FB. The digs at the SNP are what you would expect from the Graun , wish he had made more of Paisleys long standing Love for Labour though & where its got us !! Hard to disagree on his opinion of the Gilmour street to Airport bus link , what an impression that must give to any departing passengers daft enough to travel on it. Overall though , it serves to remind us what we once had & hopefully may well recapture. What all daft socialists fail to recognise is that all the "great architecture" that they celebrate in Paisley was built by extremely rich people who had profited from the toil and exploitation of the poor. Even the Paisley pattern was a stolen design taken from one of the Brits Empires many colonies. Indeed Paisley profited from the Act of Union and the British Empire far more than most towns. It even profited from the work of slaves. Today all that's left in Paisley to celebrate is what the most extreme forms of capitalism gave them.....yet daft people think Paisley can get back to that standard through some ridiculous notion of nationalism or socialism....perhaps even both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) . It even profited from the work of slaves. As did the majority of UK and USA. By f**k you are a halfwit. The sooner that puncture repair kit arrives and your girlfriend gets fixed, the better it will be for all of us on here. Edited April 11, 2016 by FTOF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 What all daft socialists fail to recognise is that all the "great architecture" that they celebrate in Paisley was built by extremely rich people who had profited from the toil and exploitation of the poor. Even the Paisley pattern was a stolen design taken from one of the Brits Empires many colonies. Indeed Paisley profited from the Act of Union and the British Empire far more than most towns. It even profited from the work of slaves. Economist, political analyst, expert sports commentator, general polemicist, and now a social historian? You really are a quite remarkable man, Stuart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 A very poor economist, political analyst, expert sports commentator, general polemicist, and now a shit social historian? You really are a fanny, Stuart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Is he really that clever? ETA: Bastard, you edited that just when I was quoting it. My post now looks rather stupid instead of incredibly witty. Put that back in. Sorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonbuddie Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Not half as silly as anything at all posted in here by Stuart "SNPBaaaaad" Dickson, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Economist, political analyst, expert sports commentator, general polemicist, and now a social historian? You really are a quite remarkable man, Stuart. Am I wrong? It's the same in every major city. Its the extreme wealth of private individuals that leads to the building of impressive architecture. When it's left to politicians we get poorly thought out over expensive shit like the Scottish Parliament. Yet for some reason the people who seem to know their history ignore it when looking for a plan for the future. Capitalism is what made us great. Socialism and nationalism has only served to drag everyone down and hold everything back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Am I wrong? It's the same in every major city. Its the extreme wealth of private individuals that leads to the building of impressive architecture. When it's left to politicians we get poorly thought out over expensive shit like the Scottish Parliament. Yet for some reason the people who seem to know their history ignore it when looking for a plan for the future. Capitalism is what made us great. Socialism and nationalism has only served to drag everyone down and hold everything back. Leaving the abuse aside for the moment, I was talking to my daughter the other day about understanding her history. We have a tendency to white-knight doctors and nurses but without engineers we would be living in caves. Without science we wouldn't have engineers - certainly not of the standard we have now and doctors would still be the quacks they were in the 18th and 19th century. Without scientists we'd have no engineers but then you have to ask where scientists came from. Universities weren't producing them in the 1600's. They were largely funded by a handful of bored aristocrats who initially were interested in creating gold from every day things and a handful who were interested in how everything around us works. So if we are to be thankful for anything there is a case for saying thanks to those aristocrats. Then you start to investigate how and why those aristocrats gained their enormous wealth and it all falls apart. Personally I think it's better to understand the history of things and simply not white-knight anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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