spw021995 SCOTLAND (1928). Brown and Polson's Starch Works, Falside Road, Paisley. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west.

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Title [SPW021995] Brown and Polson's Starch Works, Falside Road, Paisley. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-west.
Reference SPW021995
Date 1928
Link Canmore Collection item 1256413
Place name
Parish PAISLEY (RENFREW)
District RENFREW
Country SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing 248091, 662258
Longitude / Latitude -4.4255406827426, 55.829637966465
National Grid Reference NS481623

Pins

17, Sunnyside Road. I lived here in the 1950 and early 1960s. I remember the Daily Goods trains travelling on the adjacent railway from Paisley West Station to Potterhill and Glenfield Goods Stations. Coal for Fultons Factory was the main reason for the retention of the railway to Glenfield Goods. Potterhill became a distribution Depot for Cadbury.

Old Blarney
Tuesday 24th of September 2019 10:50:51 PM
Now kids swing park.

brodie93
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:30:00 PM
Railway closed in 1970 and was used once/twice a week for deliveries to the Cadburys factory.

brodie93
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:27:57 PM
Wash house and toilet block, demolished in later years and extensions added to the back to the properties providing each property with a kitchen and bath. It was then that the entrance to the main buildings were changed and the down stair properties were given a back door of their own and the upstairs properties had a large stair case.

brodie93
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:25:45 PM
This area was turned into a staff car park around 1988 and now turned into housing estate.

brodie93
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:20:18 PM
This became delivery entrance for morrisons which was built on the football/rugby pitch. Some of the original stone wall is still in place.

brodie93
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:17:45 PM
Sunnyside Road

brodie93
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:13:53 PM

Pol
Sunday 30th of June 2013 07:25:01 AM

jimmy
Wednesday 29th of August 2012 04:21:12 PM

User Comment Contributions

The big house, South Park House is no longer there, it was demolished some 30 years ago, and now there are modern flats here. Also, the park, Brodie Park has changed too. For a while there was a pitch and putt on it, and a bandstand, but all gone now, and just back to being a park. Nearby are the tennis courts where all of Paisley aspired to being Wimbledon Champions.

Evelyn
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:10:06 PM
Hi I've just joined and looking to find out more about where I grow up. I stayed in the workers houses on falside road for 22 years and knew most the neighbours who worked in the factory my dad included. Loved staying here but its changed abit now like most places. Their wasn't a day I wasn't in the Brodie park with our dogs made lots of friends their. The club house on the corner of falside road braids road used to be the works club house and they used to hold a christmas party for the staffs kids. It was horrible seeing place shut and bulldozers move in, regret the red brick main building being knocked down should of been kept it was listed. Would love to have a chat with you if you'd like to swap info on the area.

brodie93
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:10:05 PM
Hi I've just joined and looking to find out more about where I grow up. I stayed in the workers houses on falside road for 22 years and knew most the neighbours who worked in the factory my dad included. Loved staying here but its changed abit now like most places. Their wasn't a day I wasn't in the Brodie park with our dogs made lots of friends their. The club house on the corner of falside road braids road used to be the works club house and they used to hold a christmas party for the staffs kids. It was horrible seeing place shut and bulldozers move in, regret the red brick main building being knocked down should of been kept it was listed. Would love to have a chat with you if you'd like to swap info on the area.

brodie93
Thursday 22nd of January 2015 10:10:06 PM