On the streets of Paisley
Another image that has come to life for the first time, the original tranny being badly over-exposed and whose colour had turned to a muddy red. The digitalisation has opened a veritable time capsule, it being several decades since I last viewed this scene.
Against a backdrop of Paisley’s Sheriff Court House, a couple walk past with their three infants. The Billy Fury lookalike in his suit seems anachronistic in his early-1960s style, while the lady herself looks like a refugee from a kitchen sink drama of the same era - think ‘Cathy Come Home’, perhaps. Their wee bairns in the battered push-chair would now be aged in their mid-50s. It’s a reminder that life was tough for many people back then. Paisley was historically a textile town, and this industry was undergoing its final throes then.
The bus in the background was my primary source of interest when I pressed the shutter. It is an Alexander-bodied Daimler Fleetline of the local independent, McGill’s of Barrhead. The company ceased operations during the 1990s.
The white car following the bus appears to be a Hillman Imp Estate. It came off the Rootes Group/Chrysler production line just a couple of miles away, at the troubled Linwood plant, opened in 1963 to alleviate local unemployment but closed just 18 years later. No trace of the factory remains.
I am unsure if the ‘Hole in the Wa’ bar survives: Google Maps shows a tattoo parlour at this corner of Old Sneddon Street. McEwan’s beer survives as a brand, today part of the Carlsberg Marston’s brewing giant. Its malty beers are no longer brewed in Edinburgh but in Bedford, England.
April 1971
Zorki 4 camera
Boots ASA50 film.
On the streets of Paisley
Another image that has come to life for the first time, the original tranny being badly over-exposed and whose colour had turned to a muddy red. The digitalisation has opened a veritable time capsule, it being several decades since I last viewed this scene.
Against a backdrop of Paisley’s Sheriff Court House, a couple walk past with their three infants. The Billy Fury lookalike in his suit seems anachronistic in his early-1960s style, while the lady herself looks like a refugee from a kitchen sink drama of the same era - think ‘Cathy Come Home’, perhaps. Their wee bairns in the battered push-chair would now be aged in their mid-50s. It’s a reminder that life was tough for many people back then. Paisley was historically a textile town, and this industry was undergoing its final throes then.
The bus in the background was my primary source of interest when I pressed the shutter. It is an Alexander-bodied Daimler Fleetline of the local independent, McGill’s of Barrhead. The company ceased operations during the 1990s.
The white car following the bus appears to be a Hillman Imp Estate. It came off the Rootes Group/Chrysler production line just a couple of miles away, at the troubled Linwood plant, opened in 1963 to alleviate local unemployment but closed just 18 years later. No trace of the factory remains.
I am unsure if the ‘Hole in the Wa’ bar survives: Google Maps shows a tattoo parlour at this corner of Old Sneddon Street. McEwan’s beer survives as a brand, today part of the Carlsberg Marston’s brewing giant. Its malty beers are no longer brewed in Edinburgh but in Bedford, England.
April 1971
Zorki 4 camera
Boots ASA50 film.