. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Abbey bkfoke Restobatioxs, 1835. Literary Union of the Artizans Institution drew together manyremarkable men in their humble way. John Shaw, John Broom,and James Lindsay, were men who, under more favourable cir-cumstances, might have made some noise in the world. The old bridge has been widened since those days, and isnow named Saint James Bridge. This saint seems to have been Transition 157 popular in Paisley, for amongst the thread people the name ofJames occurs with embarrass
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Abbey bkfoke Restobatioxs, 1835. Literary Union of the Artizans Institution drew together manyremarkable men in their humble way. John Shaw, John Broom,and James Lindsay, were men who, under more favourable cir-cumstances, might have made some noise in the world. The old bridge has been widened since those days, and isnow named Saint James Bridge. This saint seems to have been Transition 157 popular in Paisley, for amongst the thread people the name ofJames occurs with embarrassing West Fhoni of Aiibev, with Meihodist Ciiapei,, 1858. Up to i860, the Abbey Close was an unsavoury locality. InEnglish towns the Cathedral Close, which usually conducts to thewest front of the Cathedral or Abbey, is invariably a quiet, sleepy 158 The Paisley Thread street of old-fashioned houses, with bow windows, hid in creepers,and everything exceptionally clean and neat. Such, probably,was our Abbey Close in early times, and doubtless in thisquarter the hamlet of Paisley first began. But in the days of
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