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Carriagehill Road, Paisley, Renfrewshire, now Neilston Road. None of the buildings depicted have survived. Titled: 'Old Carriagehill, Paisley.' On verso 'Carriagehill now Neilston Road.' |
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View across river towards mill (The Hammills)
Titled: 'Old Clarks Mills.'
Inscribed on verso; 'The Hammills were a favourite spot for Paisley boys learning to swim.' Used in Gardner, Alexander, "A handbook to Paisley." |
1882 |
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View of High Street, Paisley
Titled: 'High Street'
Inscribed on verso; 'Probably about 1870. Street was 22 feet wide.'
Used in Gardner, Alexander,"A handbook to Paisley." |
1879 |
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Craigie Lynn, Paisley
Titled: 'The Lynn, Paisley. W.B'
Inscribed on verso: 'Now in Paisley water catchment grounds at The Glen.' [Gardner, Alexander "A handbook to Paisley" gives Gleniffer Braes as the situation of Linn.] |
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View of houses with family group standing outside.
Titled: 'The Place of Paisley.'
Inscribed on verso; 'In its latter days it became a pub and a low tenement. It is now the Session House of Paisley Abbey. The residence of the Cochranes of Dundonald. Here Jean Cochran was married to John Graham Duke of Claverhouse, "Bloody Claverhouse". He was killed at Killiecrankie. She afterwards married and was killed with her infant son in Holland. Their bodies were discovered in perfect preservation in Kilsyth Old Aisle two hundred years later. See the book "My Lady Dundee" for details.
[Used in Gardner, Alexander "A handbook to Paisley,"and in Rowand, David "Pictorial history of Paisley," (1993) where it is said to have been restored c1912.] |
1865 |
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View of 14 St Mirins Street
Titled: 'St Mirins Street, "The Deils Elbow." [The Wheat Sheaf Tavern.]
Inscribed on verso: 'This I think was on the way to Causeyside and was part of St Mirins St.' |
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View looking down street, Paisley
Titled: 'St Mirin's Wynd'
Inscribed on verso; 'Up till 1880 or so Causeyside could not be reached directly by St Mirins St (Wynd), you had to go down to Cart Walk and then up Water Brae. Earlier still the St Mirin Burn had to be crossed where street now is.' |
c. 1865 |
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View down street in Paisley with horses and carts.
Titled: 'Old Sneddon St.'
Inscribed on verso: 'Valuable.' |
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General view of children standing on street corner in Paisley. The Railway Station Vaults is visible on the corner.
Titled: 'Corner of St James Place and Old Sneddon St.'
Inscribed on verso; 'Valuable... This site is now occupied by the present building where the war-time corner canteen was.'
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View of castle with men leaning on fence in foreground
Titled: 'Stanely Castle.'
Inscribed on verso: 'Residence of the Ross family, now in reservoir at Nethercraig.'
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View of town hall
Titled: 'Town Hall Paisley'
Inscribed on verso: 'About 1881.' [Built 1882.]
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c. 1882 |
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View of Paisley Town Hall.
Titled: 'Town Hall and Old Bridge.'
Inscribed on verso: 'This was after 1880 when the Hall was built.'
[It was built in 1882. Gardner, Alexander in "A handbook to Paisley," says that the old bridge was re-built in about 1703 and again about 1783, repaired in 1827 and "transformed into the present handsome structure in 1833 when it was named St. James' Bridge." |
c. 1882 |
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A photomontage of Paisley workers.
Titled: 'Daunie Weir, the Guck, Willie McAllister, Jock the Rat, Hungry Jamie, Willie Love,' (Figures in foreground L-R.)
Inscribed on verso: 'This is a valuable archive. All these old Paisley workers were in town about 1880 or so. Wee Willie McAllister was called the "Charleston Puddock", he was a chimney sweep who fell 40ft and was a cripple. His tongue was as dirty as his trade. He was found dead in a close in Love St.'
(More details and individual photographs in D. Rowand's" Pictorial History of Paisley" with acknowledgement to Paisley Museum.)
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View of corner of Causeyside Street and St Mirins Street
Titled: 'Old Union Bank, Causeyside St... St Mirins St or Wynd'
Inscribed on verso; 'All demolished when Causeyside was opened up.' [In 1879.] Used in Gardner, Alexander, "A handbook to Paisley," where it is captioned 'Bank of Scotland, Old Causeyside, 1865.' It abuts the buildings in the previous photograph at 116 Causeyside, SC1165037.] |
c. 1865 |
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View of entrance to Causeyside Street from St Mirins Street
Titled: 'Entrance to Causeyside St from St Mirins St'
Inscribed on verso; 'Where St Mirins St. or Wynd reached Causeyside St.' [St. Mirin's Wynd was demolished in 1877 when St. Mirren Street was formed.] |
c. 1865 |
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View of entrance
Titled: 'St Mirin's Aisle.' [Gardner, Alexander in "A handbook to Paisley" calls this 'St Mirin's chapel or the once famous Sounding Aisle.'] |
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Abbey Close
Titled: 'Site of Town Halls at Abbey Close... Artizans Institute, Cross Bridge, site of Dunn Square... George Hotel'
Inscribed on verso: 'Valuable. The buildings on right were taken down when the bridge was widened to 100 feet early this century.' |
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Statue of Robert Burns, Fountain Gardens, Paisley'
Inscribed on verso; 'This is supposed to be the finest statue of the poet in Britain. It is not seen to advantage in Love St at all.' |
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116 Causeyside Street
Titled: 'Causeyside St 116'
Inscribed on verso; 'Cheap sale of French and British paper hangings 5680 pieces from 4d to 5d per piece... I have leased the property occupied by Mr Blair Tailor, 18 Causeyside.' [Demolished c 1898. This abuts the Old Union Bank (Bank of Scotland) see SC 1165152.] |
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