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 165
ingers upon, is the Artizans Institution, founded in 1847, whichstood at the south-west corner of the bridge (p. 95). This wasa centre of much beneficent influence on education in Paisley.Mr. Thomas Coats, whose statue now appropriately stands on 156 The Paisley Thread this site (p. 151), was a… … Abbey bkfoke Restobatioxs, 1835. Literary Union of the Artizans Institution drew together manyremarkable men in their humble way. John Shaw, John Broom,and James Lindsay, were men who, under more favourable cir-cumstances, might have made some noise in the world. The old bridge has been widened…
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