. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . ich wasAlexander Wilsons Watty and Meg, and reciting the popularpoem in a husky voice. Paisley boys could all repeat Wattyand Meg, although few of them had seen it in print. Theylearned it from Daunie (p. 163). Of the old houses removed up to 1882, when High Street waswidened, the most remarkable was the town house of the Sempills,with the family arms sculptured on the front. This stone is now-preserved in the Museum. The first Lord Sempill fell alongwith his King on the fatal f
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . ich wasAlexander Wilsons Watty and Meg, and reciting the popularpoem in a husky voice. Paisley boys could all repeat Wattyand Meg, although few of them had seen it in print. Theylearned it from Daunie (p. 163). Of the old houses removed up to 1882, when High Street waswidened, the most remarkable was the town house of the Sempills,with the family arms sculptured on the front. This stone is now-preserved in the Museum. The first Lord Sempill fell alongwith his King on the fatal field of Idodden, so that he was oneof those Flowers o the Forest that were a wede away. Near to the Rob Roy Close, which led up to School Wynd,was Thomas Goodlets Coffee House, the proprietor of whichhad a reputation for comic song and story, all his own, and Transition i6- was consequently in great demand for social gatherings. Thisplace was also a favourite resort of the aspiring youths of theLiterary Union of the Artizans Institution before over their coffee many Noctes Ambrosianae were spent,. ?Daunie Weir. which lino-er in the memorv of not a few survivors, most of whom,characteristically, are members of the Philosophical Peattie, Robert Russell, James Hay, and others, havedone no discredit to the training obtained at the Literary corner of New Street shows a characteristic old buildingf,and its rather fantastic successor (pp. 164-5) ! ^^it soon this angle 164 The Paisley Thread will be occupied by a handsome building for the Young MensChristian Association. By the kindness of the architect, Mr. Abercrombie, who has done much to ornament the town,we are enabled to give an elevation of the proposed structure
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