Paisley and Renfrewshire Doors Open day 2008
August 18, 2008 | Category: Paisley news | Leave a Comment
The doors open day is nearly upon us and it gives us all the chance to go into Paisley and Renfrewshire’s historic and interesting buildings once again, its also a photographic opportunity and this year Paisley.org.uk will have a best picture competition. “more details to come”
the weekend of 13th and the 14th of September is the dates for this years event, for more information download our pdf which has all the information which is publicly available at the moment
click here to download paisley-doors-open-day-2008
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UK soldier killed in Afghanistan
August 18, 2008 | Category: Paisley news | Leave a Comment
On the BBC page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7568583.stm
Just a wee note on this, now this hits me hard, most people know that I am an ex soldier and had lost a good friend in Northern Ireland due to a Bomb at Musgrave park Hospital away in the early 90’s now as you can see from the headline above it has now happened to my younger brother who is serving in Afghanistan.
Today they were involved in an incident which killed a good friend of his and when we were told that my brother was fine and that he was deeply shocked and sounded traumatised my mother said “Get them out” to which I replied No “Give them our support”.
We don’t know what the intricacies of this conflict and why our Troops are over there but there is another death in our Forces which leaves a couple of kids without a father and people will be asking why we are over there. That is not the thing our troops want to hear they want to know that they are doing a worthwhile job and they all deserve our respect and support.
I wish all our troops the very best and I am sure most of our visitors would like every single one of them to come back safe and well.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS.
Let me know your opinion in our message board
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra
August 13, 2008 | Category: Paisley news | Leave a Comment
SCO tour brings popular classics to life
Summer touring season brought to a close across central lowlands
Charismatic SCO Principal Maximiliano Martín takes centre stage with a performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto as part of the four-concert Autumn Classicstour across Central Scotland and Fife between 3-6 September 2008.
Following the success of the Orchestra’s tour across the central lowlands last year, the players will perform in Paisley Town Hall (Friday 5 September).
The programme will be directed by young Austrian conductor Aleksandar Markovic, who makes his SCO debut with this tour. It opens with Haydn’s rousing Symphony No 96 ‘Miracle’, with its lyrical writing for the wind section, the prominence of which was unusual for its time. Completed in 1791, the ‘Miracle’ nickname came about after a chandelier fell from the ceiling of the concert hall during the performance, narrowly missing the audience. However, it later turned out that this actually occurred during a performance of Haydn’s later symphony, No 102. But the name stuck.
Mozart’s popular concerto is the centre piece of the programme, and soloist Maximiliano Martín features on an SCO/Linn Records recording of the work on the highly acclaimed Mozart Wind Concertos CD, released in 2006. The concerts close with Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony, which is explosive from start to finish.
Maximiliano explained: “Performing as a soloist is always a special occasion and even more if it is with the SCO. I have played the Mozart Concerto many times but this concerto is always a challenge, it is so popular that basically it has to be perfect.”
SCO Concerts Director Judith Colman added: “There was a great reception for our first tour of Central Scotland last year and we’re very much looking forward to bringing the SCO to the region again in September. The full Orchestra will perform in Motherwell, Falkirk, Paisley and Dunfermline, with a popular programme bringing together some of the greatest Classical composers and featuring Mozart’s wonderful clarinet concerto with soloist Maximiliano Martín.”
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The Not so Bonnie Wee Well
August 9, 2008 | Category: Paisley news | 1 Comment
One of our visitors and regular contributers has wrote into express hi disgust at the state of the bonnie wee well, please read the following.
I’m appalled at the state of the bonnie wee well, Which once crooned a laigh song tae pleasure itsel, I’m sure Hugh McDonald would be terribly pained, That the basin is filled only after its rained, The love that he had for the spring on the brae, Where the hare steals to drink in the gloamin sae grey, It would sadly diminish if he rambled once more, Dehydrated the hare cannot run like before
The wild moorland birds can no longer take wing, If the lark wet its whistle it never would sing, And his friends who once drank there in these bygone years, Would stoop to its bosom and flood it with tears And silenced forever its low trickling voice, Which he said he’d recall midst the turmoil and noise, and the councils elected can all share the blame, While the people of Paisley can all share the shame.
JAMES STIRRAT
“here are pictures taken today of the Bonnie wee well, which shows how poor it looks these days, let us know your thoughts on this”
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Dear Green Place pictures
August 9, 2008 | Category: Paisley news | Leave a Comment
To receive the full picture from today’s photographs a deposit to paisley.org.uk is required. Once the deposit has been received the full image will be emailed to the recipient.
Filming in Paisley
August 9, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
If you were photographed today at the filming in Paisley of Dear Green Place and would like the photo’s then visit our gallery. If you you would like the bigger version then we would appreciate a donation to keep the website going as soon as we receive a donation we shall send you the image of your choice..
Many thanks
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July 17, 2008 | Category: Paisley | Leave a Comment
Its only 2 days to go until the Glasgow River Festival.
The opening ceremony starts on Saturday the 19th July at 11am on HMS Middleton and there are lots of events during the Glasgow fair weekend to keep the family entertained. for more information and events diary please visit the Glasgow River Festival website. www.glasgowriverfestival.co.uk
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New Events
July 16, 2008 | Category: Paisley, joke | Leave a Comment
Sunday 20th July 2008
Finlaystone Country Estate
Teddy Bears’ Picnic & Dolls’ Tea Party 1.30pm onwards
Bring teddy or dolly and a picnic for the special tea party. Fun and games for all with puppet and magic shows
For more information call 01475-540505 or email info@finlaystone.co.uk
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Revival of old sections
July 15, 2008 | Category: Paisley | Leave a Comment
I have revived two old sections that seemed to have been misplaced during my redevelopment of the Paisley website, they are the My Toon section which is for your stories about Paisley’s past and also the poems section written by people from Paisley…
Click here for the My Toon section now known as Paisley People
Click here for the poems section now known as Paisley peoms
I hope you like them and would like to add your story or poem to the sections and add to the website archive.
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That time of year again
July 15, 2008 | Category: Paisley | Leave a Comment
Its that time of year again when bills need to be paid for the website and I have to ask kindly for our visitors for a donation in kind to keep the website going and also allow me to make further improvements to keep the website current and up to date. Huge improvements have been made this year purely by the kindness of our regular visitors and it is showing in our visitor numbers.
To make a donation please click here to go to our donations page www.paisley.org.uk/donations.php you can pay via paypal or if you wish you can also send in a cheque “to do this please contact us via enquiries@paisley.org.uk ” you can donate anything from a 1p to a million obviously a million is much better lol…
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