Paisley Abbey Notebook
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This 120 page, wide lined, notebook features a late 18th Century coloured line engraving of Paisley Abbey on the cover. The image is entitled “Pals” and was drawn by J Hooper on the 12th March 1791 and engraved by Sparrow. The image shows the damage done to the Abbey by the collapse of it’s…
17th Century Rentals for the Burgh of Paisley
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17th Century Rentals for the Burgh of Paisley By Stephen Clancy This volume is split into four sections, the first two deal with rentals dated between 1605 and 1619 while the final two are dated 1685. Between them they cover those paying duties or rental to the Burgh of Paisley. In general, they contain…
Gordons’ Loan
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Gordons’ Loan is now know as the area around Gordon Street – essentially the junction of Causeyside, Gordon Street, and Canal Street. In earlier days the residents of the area considered themselves as being out with the Burgh of Paisley.This book by David is Gilmour is about the area as he remembers it, with…
Taits Directory of Renfrewshire 1783
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Taits Directory of Renfrewshire 1783 Tait’s Directory of Renfrewshire was originally published in 1783 by John Tait, Stationer in the High Street of Glasgow. This was the very first directory for Paisley and parts of Renfrewshire containing names and places of work of the gentry, clergy, merchants, mechanics and many others. It was reprinted…
