
Renfrewshire
Paisley Gilmour Street Station, Platforms 3 and 4
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Paisley Gilmour Street is the busiest of the four Paisley stations. It has four platforms, with trains running on the Inverclyde and Ayrshire Coast lines. It is the fourth busiest railway station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central, Edinburgh Waverley, and Glasgow Queen Street. Quoted from Wikipedia .
Paisley Gilmour Street Station, Platforms 1 and 2
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Paisley Gilmour Street railway station is the largest of the four stations serving the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and acts as the town's principal railway station. Quoted from Wikipedia .
Paisley Cenotaph
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The cenotaph is 25 feet high with a bronze group by Meredith Williams of a mounted crusader flanked by four infantrymen. Quoted from Paisley on the Web .
Queen Victoria Monument
Paisley Abbey and the White Cart Water
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Paisley Abbey is a former Cluniac monastery, and current Church of Scotland Protestant parish kirk, located on the east bank of the White Cart Water in the centre of the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, about 12 miles (19 km) west of Glasgow, in Scotland. Quoted from Wikipedia .
The River Cart itself is very short, being formed from the confluence of the Black Cart Water (from the west) and the White Cart Water (from the south east) and is only 0.75 mile (1 km) long. The River Cart and its tributary the White Cart Water were navigable as far as the Seedhill Craigs at Paisley; and, as with the River Clyde, various improvements were made to this river navigation. Quoted from Wikipedia .
Paisley Town Hall and the White Cart Water
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Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire and the fifth-largest in Scotland. Situated in the west central Lowlands of Scotland, it serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area. The town is on the northern edge of the Gleniffer Braes, straddling the banks of the White Cart Water, a tributary of the River Clyde. Quoted from Wikipedia .
Paisley Town Hall and the Robert Tannahill Statue
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Robert Tannahill (June 3, 1774 – May 17, 1810) was a Scottish poet of labouring class origin. Known as the 'Weaver Poet', he wrote poetry in English and lyrics in Scots in the wake of Robert Burns. Quoted from Wikipedia.
Abbey Bridge, Paisley
Mural in the Car Park between Orchard Street and J…
Jimi Hendrix Mural, Brown's Lane, Paisley
John Lennon Mural, Brown's Lane, Paisley
Chick Young Mural, Brown's Lane, Paisley
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Artist: Mark Worst
Charles "Chick" Young is a professional association football pundit who regularly appears for BBC Scotland on Sportscene and Sportsound . He is known for his trademark laugh and speech patterns, which have made him a popular target for lampooning on the BBC Scotland sports comedy Only an Excuse? Quoted from Wikipedia .
Kingfisher Mural in Paisley
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This mural depicts a beautiful kingfisher perched next to a ball of yarn, while the distinctive Coats Memorial Church appears in the background. Quoted from the Paisley First website .
Jackdaw on a Gravestone
Train approaching Paisley Canal Station
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Paisley Canal railway station is a railway station in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and lies on the Paisley Canal Line. Quoted from Wikipedia .
Blackhall Street, Paisley
White Cart Water, Seedhill Footbridge and Anchor M…
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On entering the town of Paisley, the river falls over rapids called the Hammils, and flows under two roads, to emerge in the town centre at Paisley Abbey. It then passes under Gauze Street, the Piazza Shopping Centre and Paisley Gilmour Street railway station where it emerges from the Abercorn Bridge, a wide, high arched red sandstone bridge at Old Sneddon Street. From there it runs, mostly hidden from view, towards Glasgow International Airport and Renfrew. Quoted from Wikipedia .
White Cart Water, and Anchor Mill, Paisley
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The six-storey, red-brick domestic finishing mill that sits alongside the tumbling waters of the River Cart is an enduring monument to Paisley’s rich history in the textile industry. Built in 1886 by the Clarks firm, it would stand sentry to the Anchor site that stretched back to the imposing Mile End building at the other end of Seedhill Road. Quoted from the Paisley People's Archive .
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