. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Teetotal Toweh, 1860. was born. This was an extremely interesting old building. Onentering, you stood in the kitchen, with its stone floor and roomybaronial fire-place. Passing in to the adjoining room, the eyewandered from the old mantle-shelf, with the figures of a shepherdand his dog and flock, ornamenting its centre, to the quaintlypanelled doors and wainscotted walls. Climbing the richly carved,oaken-railed staircase, you reached the dining-room, with itsfigured cornice ris
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Teetotal Toweh, 1860. was born. This was an extremely interesting old building. Onentering, you stood in the kitchen, with its stone floor and roomybaronial fire-place. Passing in to the adjoining room, the eyewandered from the old mantle-shelf, with the figures of a shepherdand his dog and flock, ornamenting its centre, to the quaintlypanelled doors and wainscotted walls. Climbing the richly carved,oaken-railed staircase, you reached the dining-room, with itsfigured cornice rising from antique dados and panels. In aroom near by, one observed the elaborate mouldings around the 168 The Paisley Thread bed with folding doors, where wee Kit first saw the give a view of the building in its later days, when itcontained the shop of Teugh Geordie, a noted confectioner,who was a special favourite of the young people. On the buildingwhich replaces this interesting old house, a tablet has beenplaced, of which we give a reproduction (p. 169). The north. Bill I lUiACE oi PiioFiiSsoii John Wii,sox, IWM-. side of the street at this point contains the Free Library andMuseum, the Drill Hall, and the Coats Memorial Church, threeof the great ornaments of the New Paisley. Proceeding westwards, we arrive ai the separation of Sand-holes, popularly known as the Coffin En (pp. 176-7). Thisis the Cross of the West-end. Beyond this point furtherwidenings are in progress, and although now the bonnie woodso Craigielea, where The cushat croodles amorously, Transition 169 and even sweet Ferguslie, have long been folded in theembrace of the advancing town, the electric cars now take usout quickly to where, Towering oer the Newton woods,L;ivrocks fan the snaw-white clouds.
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