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  1. Stickman
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    https://reaction.life/paisley-pattern-transformative-power-culture-capitalism/

    This is an interesting and thoughtful article about the regeneration of Paisley.

    The Paisley experience tells us a lot about how we should think about our towns and about civic space, and the opportunities that open up if we shop largely online and use the resulting time saved to talk to each other over a coffee or a plate of good food in nice buildings rather than wander around identikit shopping malls. It can be turned around.

    He's right about the Paisley architecture - there are some beautiful buildings there.

    Only thing missing is recognising benefit of cycling in helping that.

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  2. gembo
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    Paisley town hall, Paisley abbey, Paisley grammar, Paisley museum and Allan's snack bar (fish and chips mainly)

    John Byrne

    Paisley is n a segregated cycle path from Glasgow to ardrossan.

    Glennifer Braes for hill climbs

    Dark satanic mills, now closed

    St Mirren ( check out their fanzine There's a store where the creatures meet is its name. It is the fanzine with the best name)

    Two railway stations

    17 miles from where I grew up and where we paid our electricity bill. My highland grandfather read the gas meters in Ferguslie park

    The sonorous mhairi black and Paolo Nuttini

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  3. chdot
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    Own paper too -

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_Daily_Express

    "Only thing missing is recognising benefit of cycling in helping that."

    I'm told the bid is about culture - in the conventional sense.

    Job creation, inward investment and 'gentrification' may or may not be intended (or actual) spinoffs.

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  4. Stickman
    Member

    No discussion of Paisley is complete without mentioning the art nouveau Bull Inn. My wife once overheard a very heated argument about architecture in there.

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  5. gembo
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    Mr Copstick was my dentist up from the shop Lews.

    Bit niche that.

    However, as I have bored people with this story before I will again, I was in the Lord Nelson pub in Belsize Park, London, after frequenting the excellent vegetarian chinese restaurant down the boulevard. A large Rastafarian asked me and my pal Duncan if we were from Paisley. He explains he had learnt to distinguish between buddy and weegee whilst at Glasgow school of art. He had been in a punk rock band. Glasgow had banned punk rock so they played their gigs in Paisley.

    I once left the doublet bar in Glasgow west end at 2.45pm, caught taxi to central station, caught train to Paisley, ran to love street, game I think had slightly delayed kick off but infeasibly it was only five minutes started. Unfortunately I missed both goals. The next 85 minutes was turgid stuff. Often better to travel than to arrive

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  6. Stickman
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    My wife used to buy her Docs in Lews. Didn't go to that dentist though.

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  7. gembo
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    If you google Lews Paisley you are taken to the Facebook page of Oor Wee Toon (not to be confused with European city of culture 2022). The picture shows Lews and next door a double decker bus coming out of a tiny hole in the tenement wall just enough clearance. This is described as Western SMT Bus garage. Dentist also mentioned. Also Wranglers.

    Maybe 1960s? My Lews had a much chunkier font in it's shop sign

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  8. Stickman
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    New flats now built in the bus depot but the hole is still there. NCN cycle route on the old Canal line is across the road; pub in the old station building is nice.

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  9. chdot
    Admin

    "If you google Lews Paisley ... "

    True, though it seems to be Lew's!

    https://www.facebook.com/paisleyoorweetoon/photos/a.300846973361677.66851.300800233366351/622110874568617

    If you google Lew's Paisley, doesn't work!

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  10. gembo
    Member

    Yes correct apostrophe on shop sign but not Oor wee toon facebook

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  11. wee folding bike
    Member

    Got a pair of black, steel toe, 10 ups in Lews about 20 years ago.

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  12. fimm
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    I was born in Paisley.
    I don't think I've been back since...

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  13. amir
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    Some of my OH's ancestors come from Paisley. They emmigrated in the 1840s. I've been there a couple of times for research purposes - interesting place. This year the football team from her place of ancestry met with the football team from my place of ancestry in the Scottish Challenge Cup.

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  14. Cyclingmollie
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    No discussion of Paisley is complete without mentioning...

    ...that it was a snail found in a bottle of ginger beer in Paisley that started consumer protection law.

    And they used to make nice shawls.

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  15. chdot
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    For anyone who associates Paisley with boring -

    http://www.renfrewshire24.co.uk/2017/04/26/scottish-water-launches-tunnel-boring-machine-in-massive-paisley-environmental-project

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  16. Diarmid
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    My dad's family came from Paisley - great great grandfather was a clock maker - still have one of his clocks.

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  17. wee folding bike
    Member

    fimm me too. Stayed in Pollok so we were zoned for the Ross Maternity in Paisley. It's an old folks home now.

    I did stay in Paisley till I was three.

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  18. fimm
    Member

    @wfb we lived somewhere in the west of Glasgow and Mum had all her antenatal appointments at Rotten Row (?) but there were too many babies being born so we were sent off to Paisley for the actual event.

    We lived somewhere near the park that now houses the Burrell Collection - a small amount of googling suggests that is Pollock. We moved from Glasgow to Northumberland when I was two.

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  19. wee folding bike
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    Yes, Rotten Row was in the middle of town. It's been demolished. I think maternity moved to the Royal and then there is a unit at the Death Star in Govan.

    The Burrell is in Pollok park but… that's not quite the same as Pollok.

    This was the entrance to the Ross Maternity. I'm not sure how much of the building is left now. By the time my wee sister was born, '68, we stayed in Paisley so obviously she was born in Elderslie.

    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.8348995,-4.395156,3a,75y,107.75h,91.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBVGxv16ux7dhmZ0iR7mlYw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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  20. wee folding bike
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    Ohhh… and the maternity in Paisley is very near one of the oldest railway bridges in the world. It is a repurposed canal bridge.

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  21. fimm
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    @wfb "The Burrell is in Pollok park but… that's not quite the same as Pollok."

    Hmmm. Do I detect some sniggering at the back? ;-) Let's just say that the geography of Glasgow is not my strong point...

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  22. wee folding bike
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    it's easy. The city centre is in squares and then there are big post war schemes on the edges.

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  23. gembo
    Member

    Poll ok is neither city centre nor peripheral scheme though but by the way big man

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  24. wee folding bike
    Member

    The bit my gran stayed in was a post war peripheral scheme. They even moved a church there.

    http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSE00984

    She should have gone to Riddrie after the war when they were moving people out of Townhead but she didn't want to humph a pram up stairs so she held out for a house in Pollok.

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  25. gembo
    Member

    The chapel in my village in Renfrewshire had been moved from Millport

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  26. chdot
    Admin

    "

    I arrived in Edinburgh from Paisley via Dundee University and settled here after doing a masters’ in Law at Edinburgh University.

    "

    http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2014/03/the-edinburgh-reporter-chats-with-councillor-adam-mcvey/

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  27. gembo
    Member

    I am going to google to see if he went to Paisley grammar ( posh for Paisley, the I will see where mhairi black went, on the website SNPschooldays)

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  28. Stickman
    Member

    gembo: mhairi grew up in Ralston - think that's in the Grammar catchment

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  29. gembo
    Member

    @stickman, grammar good school. My dad was offered John Neilson when it first opened but given the lives we lead, he stayed in the village, did not sit highers, became a sheet metal engineer, built a golf course, became a pro, enjoyed himself. Thirty years of bad back though.

    If he had taken up his grammar school offer ( not The Grammar of course) who knows what would have transpired.

    Mhairi went to Lourdes (school not pilgrimage) and supports The Jags according to wiki

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  30. chdot
    Admin

    "

    Paisley Patterns will be broadcast on Radio Scotland on May 2nd at 13.32, repeated on Sunday 6th May at 0703. The Mill Lassies goes out the following week at the same times. Both will be available for 30 days online via the iPlayer.

    "

    http://www.billykay.co.uk/pages/news2.asp

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