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Len Scaps · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject:

I know someone who'll be kicking himself, as he owned a bit of that site and sold it off recently for what now looks like not a lot of money

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james73 · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:16 am Post subject:

Fans want rail station name for their team

FANS have got the ball rolling on a campaign to rename a train station so it
matches their football club.

St Mirren supporters want to change the name of Paisley St James
because it is the stop closest to their new stadium.

Under their proposal the stop, which lies a few hundred yards from the
ground being built on Greenhill Road, Ferguslie Park, would be called
Paisley St Mirren.

David MacDonald, 36,who runs fans' website www.blackandwhitearmy.com
said the railway station would become a "focal point" on match days.

The computer manager said: "The name of St Mirren will mean more to
the people of Paisley than St James.

"We have just started this campaign, but will be encouraging fans to write
to councillors and MSPs to ask for their support.

"The station would become a focal point for the fans of St Mirren travelling
to home games, as well as away fans on match days."

The campaign to rename the stop, which operates on the same line as
trains running from Glasgow Central and Paisley Gilmour Street, has
gained the backing of St Mirren FC and one of its former stars.

James H
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Sir Roger DeLodgerley · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject:

You couldn't make it up! What next, a campaign to rename any reopened station at Ibrox as "Glasgow Rangers"?
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Edward Fox · Roll and sausage Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 43

Splendid city! Inspired by the pattern on my cravat, I paid a visit to the recent Paisley gala day.

Some trifling snaps of the festivities in full flow :

And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed such as this.

HollowHorn · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:23 am Post subject:

Nice day for it.
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cheesylion · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:23 am Post subject:

EF, you've obviously taken your pics rather early, once the gala actually STARTED the weather was fine.

james73 · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

Bumpy road in Paisley is second worst in UK

A STREET in Paisley has been named the second bumpiest in the UK in a
survey of the 10 worst roads.

A Glasgow street was sixth in a survey that put the city 181st out of 204
councils, with just 21% of roads problems fixed.

The survey rated Castle Street, Paisley, just behind a street in Leeds.

It claims the road has large stretches of surface missing, exposing older
cobblestones beneath, and complaints stretching back at least a year.

Gourock Street, off Pollokshaws Road in the South Side, is described as an
"uneven, potholed surface affecting more than half the width of the street"
with residents describing it as a "patchy repair job".

Continental Tyres carried out the poll with website FillThatHole.org.uk.

They judged the top 10 worst roads based on the time each had been in a
poor condition, how many times it had been reported to councils, potential
damage it could cause to vehicles, potential danger to road users and the
size of potholes in relation to road.

James H
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HollowHorn · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject:

Canal Street Church, now Castlehead Church was built by Paisley weavers in 1791 . Among those buried in its churchyard were the poet Robert Tannahill and the maternal great-grandparents of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The President visited the site during a brief trip to Scotland in 1991 .

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james73 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject:

Ancient bridge in refit (Evening Times)

A HISTORIC bridge is to receive a £1.4million facelift.

Paisley's Abbey Bridge will be resurfaced and refurbished next year after
a study showed the 129-year-old crossing was in "very poor condition".

Contractors will spend around six months renewing steel girders,
replacing decorative panels and strengthening pavements.

It's hoped the project will be carried out in phases to ease the disruption
to traffic using the bridge, which crosses the White Cart Water and sits in
the shadow of Paisley Abbey.

Bob Darracott, Renfrewshire Council's director of planning and transport,
said: "The bridge is an essential element of the road network through
Paisley.

"Inspection of the steel girders below the carriageway revealed that, in
order to extend the life of this essential structure, measures would have
to be implemented to arrest the corrosion.

"The dilapidated cast iron parapets and fascia panels will be replaced with
identical components fabricated from a more robust iron."

Workmen will grit blast the bridge's steel support girders and apply
protective paint. A number of heavily corroded side panels have already
been removed ahead of the refurbishment.

James H
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Edward Fox · Roll and sausage Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 43

Splendid news, simply splendid!

Whilst there are obviously many old Paisley relics in need of a facelift, it is greatly heartening to see the local burghers buckling down to the task at last.

Here we see the sturdy local workmen getting in a bit of ironwork restoration practice on the former Linwood car factory :

And here, the admirably inventive solution to the replacement of the former water fixture in the town square - distribution of the water.

Truly, their talents know no bounds.