. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Abbey with Restohations, 1904. which we are speaking, the Close was never other than a sortof Paddys Market, of tumble-down second-hand shops. Itappeared to rain there more frequently than in any other partof the town, for we never recollect the wretchedly uneven streetbeing without ample pools of water. None of these buildings were of architectural or historicvalue, and the clearing of them away, and the erection of the Transition 159 magnificent Clark Town Halls was one of the
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Abbey with Restohations, 1904. which we are speaking, the Close was never other than a sortof Paddys Market, of tumble-down second-hand shops. Itappeared to rain there more frequently than in any other partof the town, for we never recollect the wretchedly uneven streetbeing without ample pools of water. None of these buildings were of architectural or historicvalue, and the clearing of them away, and the erection of the Transition 159 magnificent Clark Town Halls was one of the greatest improve-ments ever made in Paisley (p. 152). It brought into view. The Place of Paisley, 1865. the fine proportions of the Abbey. This beautiful building(pp. 156-7-8), has been partially restored in recent years, and In Scotland we never is well deserving of further restoration i6o The Paisley Thread had so many of those rich ecclesiastical establishments as theyhave in England, and in the troublous and destructive times ofour Reformation, many of them were mutilated or destroyed. Butthe beauty of Gothic architecture is now much more generally
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