. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . 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, wit
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . 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. GoiiDOxs Loan, 190L colour to the scene. The Coffee Room is a simple but elegantbuilding of classic architecture, and was long considered anornament to the town, till eclipsed by more ostentatious now southwards, the St. Mirren Street of to-day(p. 132), with its garden square on the one side and row ofbanks and fine shops on the other, is a very different placefrom what it was fifty years ago. Then it was called the Transition ^2>7 Water Wynd (p. 133). It was steep, crooked, and narrow ;the roadway being only fifteen feet wide and the side walkstwo feet wide. Yet it was the principal thoroughfare to thesouthern quarter of the town, and was always a busy place.
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