. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Tannahills Hole. blighted, but made beautiful by song, and remember with grati-tude the considerateness of Messrs. Coats in preserving thispathetic memorial of a sad event. Then in crossing George Street we may note in the centreof the causeway the horse-shoe which marks the spot where wasenacted the deplorable tragedy of the burning for witchcraft, * There is a biogmphy of Peter Burnet ( Black Peter) in the Free PubhcLibrary. 174 The Paisley Thread with which the name of Christ
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Tannahills Hole. blighted, but made beautiful by song, and remember with grati-tude the considerateness of Messrs. Coats in preserving thispathetic memorial of a sad event. Then in crossing George Street we may note in the centreof the causeway the horse-shoe which marks the spot where wasenacted the deplorable tragedy of the burning for witchcraft, * There is a biogmphy of Peter Burnet ( Black Peter) in the Free PubhcLibrary. 174 The Paisley Thread with which the name of Christian Shaw, the oricrinator of thethread trade, was mixed up. We may then return by CastleStreet, where Tannahill was born, or by Queen Street, wherehe lived (p. 175). The former building no longer exists, butthe latter still remains, and in connection with it we mayhere preserve an interesting reminiscence. The followingstatement was made, in 189S, by George Archibald, a weaver. IX StREET. who occupied the same house and worked at the same loom,that had been used by Tannahill, and is kindly given to us byhis sons, Messrs. George and Robert Archibald, manuflicturersin Paisley. George Archibald, Senr., says:— I have pleasure in sending you a few notes which are inmy own recollection correct. This happened about the year1835, sixty-three years ago. I was at that time weaving inNo. 6 Queen Street, on the same exact loomstead as our poetRobert Tannahill used to weave on. Transition 175 This loomstead was situated on the south side of theproperty; its exact position was at the south-east corner nextthe fire, the window looking eastward. This loomstead, to suitthe light from the window, was put up as what is known in thetrade as a left-hand loom. I would weave on this loomsteadfor about six years, and in this way my back was to the wall.
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