{"id":17600,"date":"2016-06-24T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-paisley-renfrewshire-the-tumbleweed-town\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T22:45:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:45:58","slug":"lets-move-to-paisley-renfrewshire-the-tumbleweed-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-paisley-renfrewshire-the-tumbleweed-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Paisley, Renfrewshire: the tumbleweed town"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMonuments fit for a king, columns, pediments, spires and turrets\u2026 but where are the people, asks Tom DyckhoffWhat\u2019s going for it? There was terrible traffic on the M8, so we took a right and ended up in Paisley. All around us were the grandest of scenes: monuments fit for a king, columns, pediments, spires and turrets. But where were the people? At 4pm, downtown Paisley was tumbleweed town.How times have changed. Paisley was crafted in the finest sandstone in its 19th century boomtime by the Coats and Clark families, industrialists who made this town one of the most productive in the empire. Its citizens made crisps, carpets, cornflour, cotton thread, cars and things not starting with C \u2013 like marmalade and the world-famous shawls, with their teardrop pattern. But few places have had the rug pulled from under their feet as quickly and savagely as Paisley. As Ian Jack wrote last year: \u201cIn 1960, few other industrial towns in Scotland could have felt as secure.\u201d Until it wasn\u2019t. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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