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  • Fountain Gardens, Paisley

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    Situated in Love Street, about ten minutes’ walk from the Cross, and form one of the most effective hugs of the town. Fountain Gardens were created grounds originally called Hope Temple Gardens. Hope Temple Gardens were developed by John Love in 1797. He created The Hope Temple Museum along with a bowling green. Love…

  •  Paisley and it’s Environs

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    Hugh MacDonald 1854 (This Edition 1910) The town of Paisley is of considerable extent and importance, being the fifth in respect to magnitude in Scotland. In population it formerly ranked next to Glasgow and Edinburgh, but latterly it has been outstripped in the march of progression by Aberdeen and Dundee; the number of its…

  • The Bargarran Witchcraft Case 1696

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    In the year 1696, the 11yr old daughter of John Shaw, the Laird of Bargarran, fell victim to one of the most well remembered cases of ‘demonic possession’ in Scottish History. It resulted in a large number of locals being implicated as her tormentors concluding with 7 people being put to death in Paisley…

  • A Renfrewshire Ghost Story

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    From the Lanercost Chronicle… Set at Duchal Castle… AT this time, in the west of Scotland, in the valley of the Clyde, about four miles from Paisley, there happened in the house of a knight, Duncan de Lyle, an event at once dreadful and wonderful, which may fill the wicked with fear, and show…

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