. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . ?Daunie Weir. which lino-er in the memorv of not a few survivors, most of whom,characteristically, are members of the Philosophical Peattie, Robert Russell, James Hay, and others, havedone no discredit to the training obtained at the Literary corner of New Street shows a characteristic old buildingf,and its rather fantastic successor (pp. 164-5) ! ^^it soon this angle 164 The Paisley Thread will be occupied by a handsome building for the Young MensC
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . ?Daunie Weir. which lino-er in the memorv of not a few survivors, most of whom,characteristically, are members of the Philosophical Peattie, Robert Russell, James Hay, and others, havedone no discredit to the training obtained at the Literary corner of New Street shows a characteristic old buildingf,and its rather fantastic successor (pp. 164-5) ! ^^it soon this angle 164 The Paisley Thread will be occupied by a handsome building for the Young MensChristian Association. By the kindness of the architect, Mr. Abercrombie, who has done much to ornament the town,we are enabled to give an elevation of the proposed structure. Corner of New Street, 190-2. (p. 166). The next block to the south in New Street was thewell-known shop of George Caldwell, printer and was blessed with a rather eccentric wife, who alwayswent among the young people by the name of Lady was an enthusiastic temperance reformer, and resided atthe Teetotal Tower in Renfrew Road. This was a oreat resortof the youngsters, and boasted of a camera obscura (p. 167). Transition T65 Visitors mounted a wooden stair to a dark room, and made acircle round a table covered with a white cloth, when by amovement of the lenses there was shown a picture of the sur-rounding country with carts driving, and men ploughing the
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