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 167
i of Aiibev, with Meihodist Ciiapei,, 1858. Up to i860, the Abbey Close was an unsavoury locality. InEnglish towns the Cathedral Close, which usually conducts to thewest front of the Cathedral or Abbey, is invariably a quiet, sleepy 158 The Paisley Thread street of old-fashioned houses, with bow… … Abbey with Restohations, 1904. which we are speaking, the Close was never other than a sortof Paddys Market, of tumble-down second-hand shops. Itappeared to rain there more frequently than in any other partof the town, for we never recollect the wretchedly uneven streetbeing without ample pools of…
Cotton manufacture · Thread
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