. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Diels Euuow, 18()j. up an outside stair, was the Commercial Hotel, first Gibbs andafterwards Hinshelwoods, a rival to the Saracens Head overthe way, and also a great resort on market days. This hotelwas greatly patronized on Sunday evenings by lads and lasses,after being at church and having had a walk. They woundup the nights enjoyment by an hour in the Commercial, whereale was the usual refreshment; tea being expensive in those Transition 135 days. Among all the changes that h
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Diels Euuow, 18()j. up an outside stair, was the Commercial Hotel, first Gibbs andafterwards Hinshelwoods, a rival to the Saracens Head overthe way, and also a great resort on market days. This hotelwas greatly patronized on Sunday evenings by lads and lasses,after being at church and having had a walk. They woundup the nights enjoyment by an hour in the Commercial, whereale was the usual refreshment; tea being expensive in those Transition 135 days. Among all the changes that have taken place, nothingis more striking than that of the way in which such places asGibbs flourished and did, a roaring trade on Sunday nights,compared with the present quiet aspect of our public housesand CoitxEH OF Forbes Street, lb!);i. Underneath the Commercial Hotel was Patons drapery andhosiery shop, with the golden lamb over the door, admiredby all Paisley boys ; and next to it was the booksellers shopand library of Motherwell, the brother of the poet. This rangeof buildings was continued eastwards to within a few feet of theCoffee Room (now the Savings Bank), and a narrow passage,called the Hole in the Wa, led through into Gilmour Street(p. 131). The obstructing block, with the crow-stepped gable,was removed about 1845, when Gilmour Street, which had been. 136 The Paisley Thread formed some time previously, was opened up from the Crossto the County Square. The corner of the Hole in the Wawas the rendezvous of the recruiting sergeant, who, with hishat trimmed with streaming, gaudy ribbons, gave animation and
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