Reidy1987 Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 I got a wee challenge today to name the nine public clocks in Paisley. I can only think of seven. Is my memory going or is my mate talking s***e? 1. The Town Hall 2. The South End (Dumby) 3. The Coffin End 4. Sherwood Church 5. Oakshaw Church (?) 6. The Last Post 7. The corner of High Street and Moss Street Are there any others??? I'm thinking only of clocks that are an integral part of a building - eg the clocks on the platforms at Gilmour Street don't count. Well they do count the minutes but that's not what I mean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chingford Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 Is the South End - the Stock Street clock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rothesay Saint Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 I think there is one near the river up by lounsdale, an old cotten mill or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FS Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 (edited) The wee gatehouse thingy at the entrance to the Anchor Mills at the Abbey Business Centre had one on top. Dunno if it's still there though ? Edited March 26, 2004 by Firhill Saint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 Don't know if you can reasonably count that....some wee ned put a brick thro it years ago and it doesn't have any hands - just looks like a broken windae!! I think Rothesay Saint may be right but, the gatehouse at the Ferguslie Mills has one and it was done up when they changed the building into luxury flats (not often you see the words luxury and ferguslie in the same sentence eh??) I didn't know that the Sherwood Church had a clock (or am I thinking in Greenlaw??) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reidy1987 Posted March 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 So it looks like there used to be 9 but now there are 7. Or 8 if you count the fecked-up one at Abbey Mill? The South End clock is indeed the one at Stock Street and the Sherwood Church is the one near where the Kelburne Cinema used to be. It has a clock, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houston_bud Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 there's one down beside new flats on spoolers road behind jaybees. might be the one rothesay was talking about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeddy Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 There used to be an electronic clock that was on the back of one of the buildings in William Street, might've been the Semple Cochrane building. Don't know if its still working or if its still there though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Did the Sherwood not used to have one?? I seem to remember being able to check whether you were late for school on it or not walking up Greenlaw - I know the tower was falling down about 15 years ago and they took it down and put that stupid looking metal thing on top instead. I think maybe whoever set you this question Reidy should have checked that it was still relevant before asking, it's like the one where they ask you where the only house in paisley with a thatched roof is only to find out that Tannahills cottage was virtually burnt to the ground a couple of years ago and doesn't have any roof anymore never mind a straw one!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 Goudies,Funeral Directors To The Dead,on Maxwellton St have a big clock hanging outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Sea Saint Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 Goudies,Funeral Directors To The Dead,on Maxwellton St have a big COCK hanging outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DongaTon Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 You just KNOW it's the close season when.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sandman Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Goudies,Funeral Directors To The Dead,on Maxwellton St have a big clock hanging outside. Funeral Directors To The Living, wouldn't be much of an earner, daftie.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorizaar Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Funeral Directors To The Living, wouldn't be much of an earner, daftie.............. But every customer of a funeral director is living!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Zo Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 There used to be a clock on the spire at Sherwood Church but it was taken down about 15 years ago or more. The damage from the traffic on the Glasgow Road meant the spire and the clock had to be removed for safety reasons. It cost the church a fortune to put that copper thing on the top, I believe something like £40k. Madness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sandman Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 But every customer of a funeral director is living!!! But every customer of a funeral director WAS living!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sandman Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 I got a wee challenge today to name the nine public clocks in Paisley. I can only think of seven. Is my memory going or is my mate talking s***e?1. The Town Hall 2. The South End (Dumby) 3. The Coffin End 4. Sherwood Church 5. Oakshaw Church (?) 6. The Last Post 7. The corner of High Street and Moss Street Are there any others??? I'm thinking only of clocks that are an integral part of a building - eg the clocks on the platforms at Gilmour Street don't count. Well they do count the minutes but that's not what I mean You're that old it should be public SUNDIALS...................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 You're that old it should be public SUNDIALS...................... There's one up the Braes,just past the far end of the car park in the sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DongaTon Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Is that a sundial? I thought it was one of those monument things that has arrows pointing in all directions telling you how far away mountains/landmarks etc are? Doh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Is that a sundial? I thought it was one of those monument things that has arrows pointing in all directions telling you how far away mountains/landmarks etc are?Doh. I think it's a sundial,could be wrong.TL will be able to tell us,his face print is embedded in it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Nothing to do with the subject but does anyone know how a Barometer works (I'll ask on the Weather thread too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DongaTon Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 I may be wrong too - maybe getting mixed up with similar thing to what I was talking about up Lyle Hill in Greenock. eg. "Northwest....50 miles to Goat Fell" etc, etc Don't get the TL face thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DongaTon Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 ps. About the barometer. Well mate, off the top of me head, Even though we can't feel it, air is constantly pressing down on us with a tremendous force -- 14.7 lbs. per square inch (100,000 newtons per square meters), to be exact! This was graphically demonstrated in 1654 when Otto von Gueicke, Burgmeister of the town of Magdeburg, Germany used a vacuum pump to remove almost all of the air from the space between two half-meter diameter hemispheres. The air pressure holding them together was so strong that two teams of horses couldn't pull them apart; when air was let back in, the hemispheres fell apart easily. Air pressure is created by the weight of the earth's atmosphere. Although we can't see air, the gas molecules still have mass, and gravity acts upon it. The air pressure changes daily due to the heating and cooling of the earth's surface. When air gets warm, it expands, becoming less dense, and therefore pushes with less pressure. We can measure changes in atmospheric pressure by using a barometer. Some barometers use long glass tubes filled with mercury inverted in a dish. Air pressing down on the surface of the dish forces the mercury up the tube. Normal air pressure can support a column of mercury about 760 mm high. When atmospheric pressure drops, the force of the air pushing on the dish isn't as great, so the column of liquid falls and we have a "falling barometer." When the atmospheric pressure increases, the mercury rises, thus a "rising barometer." We use air pressure all the time when we breathe. When our diaphragm moves down, air is pushed into our lungs from the outside, expanding the volume of the chest cavity. The diaphragm doesn't "pull" air in; it expands the volume of our lungs, and the air pressure fills the volume. Hope this clears any questions you had up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DongaTon Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 You're going to tell me your barometer is fcked now, aren't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DongaTon Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Thank fck this wasn't about pubic cocks in Paisley or we'd be here all night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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