The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new (1907)
Blair, Matthew, d. 1908 · Paisley, A. Gardner · leaf 130
who never knew thedelight of hurrahing as a cart of coal was shot down at theclose mouth. That grand event never occurs now, tor coal Old Paisley 121 houses no longer exist, and the weekly supply is carried up inbaors. Then the candy-man, with his barrow ornamented withwhirling paper flags, now… … Peters, 1906. not too clean old tin tray ? It was delicious. Not even Feugh Geordie—a noted confectioner of the Townhead—could make anything finer, and compared with this the moderntoffee, wrapped up in tinsel paper to make it acceptable, isquite insipid. But now he and his retinue of…
Cotton manufacture · Thread
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