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Category: Blog
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Autumn & Winter Heritage Walks 2021
Our autumn & winter heritage walks are back and now being slowly added to our website. We begin on the 14th October with a walk exploring old Paisley from the top of Causeyside Street down to Paisley Abbey. On the 30th October we have a new walk – Paisley & witches that will explore the…
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A familiar building??
So what is this building in the picture? It is on Paisley High Street, close to two Paisley landmarks, but today it is a lot different! The two canons might just give it away. This is the original Volunteer Drill Hall, between Coats Memorial Church and Paisley Museum & Art Gallery. I’m not sure when…
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October 2021 Dinner Talk
Following our successful dinner talk at Pendulum in August, we have now organised a follow-up Dinner Talk at Pendulum Scottish Kitchen & Bar for Tuesday 12th October at 6.30pm. The topic of the talk will be on the early linen thread making industry in Scotland, looking at Christian Shaw’s (of Bargarran witch-hunt fame) involvement in…
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Fridays are history days
We have two projects running on Friday’s from the 27th August. The Glenburn Buddies History Skills Project is teaching a group of local residents how to carryout historical research over a 10 week period on Friday mornings. The Glenburn Heritage Group drop-in sessions began on the the 20th August and run every Friday afternoon. All…
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Discover Paisley!
We have just published our Heritage Walks for August to early October 2021. Under the general theme of Discover Paisley, we have a mix of old and new heritage walking tours running every Saturday, other than the 4th September when we will be running a Doors Open Day event at Paisley St George’s Outreach Centre…
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The Parish of Neilston
Today not many people think of Neilston as being part of Renfrewshire. It sits in the modern day council area of East Renfrewshire, which was separated from the old county of Renfrew along with inverclyde at the last local government reform. It is said that Neilston derrives its name for a person called Neil, who…
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TikTok
TikTok The Urban Historian is now on TikTok. You can follow us as @urbanhistorian This is our latest post on the Arthurlie Cross in Barrhead
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Online Courses
Online Courses Have you tried any of our online courses on our courses website yet? We currently have three courses/ talks there 2 paid and one free. The free one is a 360 degree tour of Sma’ Shot Cottages in Paisley, while the others relate to Paisley and Renfrewshire history. Check them out on the…
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Heritage Cast 1 – Paisley Abbey Architecture
Heritage Cast 1 – Paisley Abbey Architecture
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Lockdown January
Lockdown January For the remainder of January all of our Saturday Virtual Walks are now £5 Saturday 16th January we have ‘The Threads of Paisley‘ 3pm on Zoom Saturday 23rd January we have ‘Fergulsie Mills‘ 3pm on Zoom. See Heritage Walks for full details.
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