Category: Books

  • Paisley Abbey Notebook

    Paisley Abbey Notebook

    This 120 page, wide lined, notebook features a late 18th Century coloured line engraving of Paisley Abbey on the cover. The image is entitled “Pals” and was drawn by J Hooper on the 12th March 1791 and engraved by Sparrow. The image shows the damage done to the Abbey by the collapse of it’s tower…

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  • Paisley Notebook: The White Cart and Jail

    Paisley Notebook: The White Cart and Jail

    Our Second notebook features an image of the River White Cart and the old Paisley Jail. Inside you will find 120 pages of white lined paper ready for you to write down those memories of Paisley or your own secret thoughts of the day. You can order your new notebook right now on Amazon for…

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  • The Paisley Notebook

    The Paisley Notebook

    We are launching our new 120 page, lined Paisley Notebook range. The first two versions are now available to purchase on Amazon.co.uk This first notebook has a purple cover and features an image looking down church Hill towards New Street and Saucel Hill. Inside the pages are white with black lines. You can order a…

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  • 17th Century Rentals for the Burgh of Paisley

    17th Century Rentals for the Burgh of Paisley

    17th Century Rentals for the Burgh of Paisley By Stephen Clancy This volume is split into four sections, the first two deal with rentals dated between 1605 and 1619 while the final two are dated 1685. Between them they cover those paying duties or rental to the Burgh of Paisley. In general, they contain the…

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  • Gordons’  Loan

    Gordons’ Loan

    Gordons’ Loan is now know as the area around Gordon Street – essentially the junction of Causeyside, Gordon Street, and Canal Street. In earlier days the residents of the area considered themselves as being out with the Burgh of Paisley.This book by David is Gilmour is about the area as he remembers it, with stories…

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  • Taits Directory of Renfrewshire 1783

    Taits Directory of Renfrewshire 1783

    Taits Directory of Renfrewshire 1783 Tait’s Directory of Renfrewshire was originally published in 1783 by John Tait, Stationer in the High Street of Glasgow. This was the very first directory for Paisley and parts of Renfrewshire containing names and places of work of the gentry, clergy, merchants, mechanics and many others. It was reprinted in…

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  • Guide to Paisley (1896)

    Guide to Paisley (1896)

    Guide to Paisley: with views By J R Parlane This book was first published in May 1896 by local publisher J & R Parlane. In their introduction they ask – ”Have you got a Guide To Paisley?” This was and is a question that has often been asked by visitors to our good town. This…

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  • Peter Burnet

    Peter Burnet

    Peter Burnet The life of Peter Burnet through poem and biography This book explores the life of Peter Burnet, born in America during the Civil War and who arrived in Paisley, Scotland to become a great friend of the Paisley poet Robert Tannahill. During his life Peter was known to the inhabitants of Paisley as…

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  • From the Cottage to the Castle

    From the Cottage to the Castle

    From the Cottage to the Castle Andrew Coats 1887 From the Cottage to the Castle was published privately by Andrew Coats in 1887 telling the history of the family and the story of the growth of J & P Coats, cotton thread manufactures in Paisley Scotland. “If the following sketch should fall into the hands…

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