. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Site of Canal Bank, li)Oti. Plunken at the end ot, has been completely other part of the town presents such a scene of not one stone has been left upon another (pp. 138-139).The line of the streets can no longer be traced, and GordonsLoan (now Gordon Street) does not now resemble a goodshinty, lying to the lick finely, as in old days. Yet thisquarter has been immortalized by the delightful pen of the 144 The Paisley Thread late David Gilmo
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Site of Canal Bank, li)Oti. Plunken at the end ot, has been completely other part of the town presents such a scene of not one stone has been left upon another (pp. 138-139).The line of the streets can no longer be traced, and GordonsLoan (now Gordon Street) does not now resemble a goodshinty, lying to the lick finely, as in old days. Yet thisquarter has been immortalized by the delightful pen of the 144 The Paisley Thread late David Gilmour, in Gojdons Loan, Sixty Odd Years present writer feels a satisfaction that he can claim tobelong to this classic locality. His parents took up house inthe Loan, on their marriage in 1823, and always resided inthe neighbourhood, so that his earliest recollections are con-nected with this part of the town. He even can remember. Robert K. Bell, Pnovosr 190-2-5. the Coal Ree Parliament so graphical!)- described by DavidGilmour, and knew some members of it, especially PeterCallender. But by this time Peter had long ceased to bean advocate of the equal division of all property and means ofproduction, and was a quiet elderly man who kept a humbleschool in Marshalls Lane. He was the very image of theschoolmaster in Goldsmiths Deserted Villaoe. Transition 145 A man severe he was, and stern to view ;Yet he was kind, or if severe in love he bore to learning was in fault. Memory still lingers over the low-roofed school-room, whichhad been a six-loom shop, with its close atmosphere, and abun-dant and varied smells, where Peter initiated us into themysteries of the multiplication table and the Shorter Catechism.
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