Paisley

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paisley
Scottish Gaelic Pàislig
Paisley Abbey
Paisley Abbey
Coordinates 55 ° 51 ′  N , 4 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 51 ′  N , 4 ° 26 ′  W
Paisley (Scotland)
Paisley
Paisley
Residents 76,834 2011 census
administration
Post town PAISLEY
ZIP code section PA1, PA2, PA3
prefix 0141, 01505
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Renfrewshire
British Parliament Paisley and Renfrewshire North , Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Scottish Parliament Renfrewshire North and West , Renfrewshire South

Paisley ( Scottish-Gaelic Pàislig ) is a town in the Scottish Lowlands . It is located about 7 miles west of Glasgow . Paisley is the administrative seat of the Unitary Authority Renfrewshire . 76,834 people live in the city. This makes Paisley the fifth largest city in Scotland. The city became famous not least for the paisley pattern for textiles named after it . The Glasgow Airport is located on their territory.

Paisley is a university town. The University of the West of Scotland emerged from Paisley College in 1992 and was named University of Paisley until 2007. The University of Paisley and Bell College have been merged since August 2007 and have been run under the new name University of the West of Scotland since December 2007 . Over 18,000 students are now studying at the entire university. Paisley is also the bishopric of the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches.

Paisley is twinned with Fürth in Bavaria . Between 1793 and 1918 Paisley was the location of the Saucel whiskey distillery , one of the largest of its kind in Scotland. St Mirren FC is Paisley's only professional football team, and the club currently plays in the Scottish Premiership (1st division).

Geography, infrastructure, education

Paisley is located about 12 meters above sea level around the White Cart Water Brook, which runs right through the city center. On the outskirts of the city is the village of Ralston and a few other settlements. Ralston is at the east end of the city and in turn borders Glasgow. The village was established in the 1930s outside the city limits of Paisley, but due to a reorganization of the district authorities in the 1990s, it is now a suburb of Paisley.

Paisley is connected to the British motorway system via the M8 and the expressway connects the city with Greenock in the west and Glasgow in the east. The section is also part of the European route E05 from Greenock to Algeciras (southern tip of Spain). A number of other major roads such as the A726, A737 and A761 connect Paisley to its surroundings. A public transport network allows easy travel and commuting in Paisley throughout Strathclyde .

The city is part of the National Rail Network. It has four stations and is directly connected to downtown Glasgow and Inverclyde and the Ayrshire coast via the railway system. Glasgow Prestwick Airport is also located in Ayrshire. Glasgow's International Airport, Scotland's largest airport, is also a few kilometers away in northern Abbotsinch, but there is currently no direct train connection there. There are rail lines to the ferry terminal with connections to Dunoon , the Isle of Arran , the Isle of Bute and Northern Ireland .

Paisley is the main campus of the young University of West Scotland , which emerged from the merger of the University of Paisley and Bell College in Hamilton (South Lanarkshire) . The University of Paisley received the status of a full university in 1992, before it was run as the Technical College Paisley. West College Scotland also has a campus in the city, formerly known as Reid Kerr College. Paisley is also just 15 kilometers from the University of Glasgow and 17 kilometers from the renowned Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, RSAMD).

There are currently four state comprehensive schools in Paisley: Paisley Grammar School, Castlehead High School, St. Andrew's Academy and Gleniffer High School. Paisley Grammar was founded as early as 1576 and was one of two high schools (high schools) in the city, the other being the former John Neilson Institute (later John Neilson High School), founded in 1852. Three other high schools merged with the remaining four comprehensive schools. The St Andrew 'Academy is Roman Catholic, the other schools are not denominational.

In 2015, the city applied for the title of European Capital of Culture 2021. The application is part of a broad-based effort to harness the city's historical and cultural heritage for an influx of tourism and the associated economic boom. As part of this effort, £ 56.7 million will be invested in the remodeling of the Paisley Museum. The five final candidates were announced on July 15, 2017, and Paisley is the only Scottish town among the finalists. The rest are Coventry , Stoke-on-Trent , Sunderland and Swansea .

History, religiosity

The industrial revolution , especially in the textile industry, turned a small market village into an important industrial city of the 18th century. When silk went out of fashion in 1790, the twisting mills turned to the imitation of the noble Kashmir fabric and produced cashmere scarves under the name paisley . Under the leadership of Thomas Coats (1809-1893), Paisley became the world leader in yarn trade. The well-trained weavers united in radical protests in 1790, between 1816 and 1820 the rebellion in the Radical War escalated and the attempt to revolutionize the labor movement failed. In 1822 the construction of the Paisley Barracks was completed, from then on the military was permanently present in the city. The economic crisis of 1841–43 hit Paisley hard, almost all factories had to close, 67 of the 112 factory owners were bankrupt. Overproduction, the collapse of the cloth trade and a general slump in the textile industry had led to technical changes that drastically reduced the importance of weavers. A quarter of the population was dependent on poor relief. Politically, however, the factory owners remained in the most powerful positions in the city for a long time. Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel pledged separate financial aid to the city, sent his own advisors to oversee the city's rebuilding and persuaded Queen Victoria to wear paisley products in public to stimulate demand.

The city's industrial roots, despite its small size, made Paisley a target for the German Air Force during World War II. Although the bombing could not be compared with the Glasgow, several hundred people fell victim to the air raids. On May 6, 1941, a single air mine killed 92 people in the early hours of the morning; this is considered to be the greatest tragedy in the history of the city. The Gleniffer Braes on the southern edge of Paisley are home to several RAF “bird bunks” (airfield dummies). After the Battle of Britain , German spies were used under the code name Starfish Decoy to confuse German spies.

It was in Paisley that the legal precedent, commonly known as the Paisley Snail , and on which modern tort law is based , occurred . In 1928, a woman allegedly found a dead snail in a bottle of ginger beer in a café and fell ill. They sued the manufacturer for negligence. Up to this point in time, a manufacturer could only be held liable if an explicit contract had previously been concluded with the person suffering from the disease. After the Donoghue v Stevenson trial wound its way through the courts, it became clear that manufacturers (and other fellow citizens) have an obligation to prevent foreseeable damage caused by negligence, regardless of any contractual obligations.

Paisley is an important historical center of the Christian faith in Scotland. The city's patron is St. Mirin (also Mirren ); an Irish monk and missionary of the 6th / 7th centuries Century. He founded and led a religious community, built a small chapel and is said to be the bones of St. Have transferred Andrew to Scotland; after his death, Paisley became a place of pilgrimage. Paisley Abbey was built as a monastery in the 12th century and is still one of the city's most important attractions. In the 13th century the monastery was elevated to a monastery. For several centuries until the Scottish Reformation, the abbey served as the ecclesiastical center of a large area around Renfrewshire . In the course of the Reformation, the religious centers were divided into smaller communities. In the Church of Scotland , paisley forms part of the presbytery of Greenock and paisley in the Synod of Clydesdale . Other Christian denominations moved to Paisley with the migrant workers of the industrial revolution . The Roman Catholic diocese of Paisley , founded in 1947, has its episcopal see in St Mirin's Cathedral . Paisley is also part of the Episcopal ( Anglican ) Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway, whose center has been in the city center since 2004 in the Holy Trinity and St Barnabas Church. There are currently two Baptist congregations in Paisley: the Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church. Paisley also has a meeting house for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Other small religious groups exist in the city: The Methodist Church of Great Britain has a church and a parish center opposite Paisley Abbey, the faith center is part of the Methodist Association of Ayrshire and Renfrewshire Parishes. A group of Christadelphians gather at a community center on Alice Street.

photos

  • Glasgow International Airport

  • Renfrewshire House, headquarters of Renfrewshire Council

  • Paisley Abbey was the burial place of many Scottish kings of the House of Stewart during the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries

  • Thomas Coats Memorial Church

  • Trinity Church (Episcopal)

  • Dooslan Stone in Brodie Park

  • Paisley Grammar School, now the state comprehensive

  • Paisley Gilmour Street train station.

  • Paisley Sheriff Court and Former County Buildings

  • Coates Memorial Church, approx. 1890–1900.

  • The Anchor Mills (1886)

  • Map view of Paisley, 1923

  • Paisley's War Memorial

  • St Mirin Roman Catholic Cathedral

sons and daughters of the town

Historically, Paisley was known as the religious home of the House of Stewart . These descended from Walter FitzAlan , the first High Steward of Scotland and founder of Paisley Abbey. The Stewarts eventually became the royal family of Scotland and Britain. The six high stewarts are buried in the abbey, and Marjorie Bruce - the eldest daughter of Robert I (Robert the Bruce) - who married Walter Stewart, the 6th high steward and founded the Stewart dynasty, is buried in the abbey . It is said that the first Stewart King of Scotland and son of Marjorie Bruce and Walter Stewart, Robert II , was born in the abbey. His son, in turn, Robert III. lies buried there.

Ronald Reagan's maternal great-great grandparents, Claude Wilson and Margaret Downey, were married on May 23, 1807 at Paisley's High Church.

Other famous people were born or raised in Paisley:

International partnerships

Paisley has twinned cities with:

Web links

Wikivoyage: Paisley  Travel Guide
Commons : Paisley  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Sylvia Clark: Paisley: A History . Mainstream, Edinburgh 1988, ISBN 1-85158-109-X .
  • A. Dickson, W. Speirs: Changes in Class Structure in Paisley, 1750-1845. In: Scottish Historical Review. Vol. 59, No. 1, 1980, pp. 54-72.
  • Tony Dickson, Tony Clarke: Social Concern and Social Control in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Paisley 1841–1843. In: Scottish Historical Review. Vol. 65, No. 1, 1986, pp. 48-60.
  • Jim Hunter: The Paisley Textile Industry, 1695-1830. In: Costume. Vol. 10, No. 1, 1976, pp. 1-15.
  • Mary McCarthy: A Social Geography of Paisley . The Committee of Management, Paisley Public Library, 1969.
  • Catriona MM MacDonald: The Radical Thread. Political Change in Scotland: Paisley Politics, 1885-1924. Tuckwell Press, East Linton 2000, ISBN 1-86232-141-8 .
  • HA Moisley, AG Thain: The Third Statistical Account of Scotland : The County of Renfrew . William Collins Sons & Co, Glasgow 1962, Chapter 23: The Parish and Burgh of Paisley.
  • Lorraine Peters: Paisley and the Cotton Famine of 1862–1863. In: Scottish Economic and Social History. Volume 21, No. 2, 2001, pp. 121-139.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census
  2. ^ A. Barnard : The Whiskey Distilleries of the United Kingdom. 1887, pp. 49-50.
  3. ^ Strathclyde Partnership for Transport: Who we are. (No longer available online.) Spt.co.uk, September 5, 2007, archived from the original on December 12, 2007 ; Retrieved February 11, 2008 .
  4. ^ A b Paisley and Barrhead District Railway. ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) homepage.ntlworld.com
  5. ^ Paisley and Renfrew Railway. ( Memento of October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) homepage.ntlworld.com
  6. ↑ Paisley launches bid to become UK City of Culture 2021. In: BBC News. November 13, 2015, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  7. ^ Phil Miller: Paisley's City of Culture bid boost as revamp of Paisley Museum gets green light. In: The Herald Scotland. November 18, 2015, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Support pours in as Paisley becomes only Scottish place on UK City of Culture 2021 shortlist. Retrieved July 23, 2017 (Paisley 2021 website).
  9. ↑ Kimberly Chrisman Campbell: Paisley Before the Shawl: The Scottish Silk Gauze Industry. In: Textile History. Volume 33, No. 2, 2002, pp. 162-176.
  10. ^ Francis H. Groome: Paisley. In: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  11. ^ A. Dickson, W. Speirs: Changes in Class Structure in Paisley, 1750-1845. In: Scottish Historical Review. Vol. 59, No. 1, 1980, pp. 54-72.
  12. ^ Tony Dickson, Tony Clarke: Social Concern and Social Control in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Paisley 1841–1843. In: Scottish Historical Review. Vol. 65, No. 1, 1986, pp. 48-60.
  13. ^ Tale of Buddies who perished in World War II. In: Paisley Daily Express. January 19, 2011, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  14. ^ Paisley's contribution to the Second World War. In: Paisley Daily Express. October 17, 2011, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Saint Mirin - Our Patron Saint. Paisley Scotland, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  16. ↑ a b The Cradle of the Stewarts. Paisley Scotland, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  17. ^ Contact Us «Holy Trinity & St Barnabas, Paisley. Episcopalpaisley.org.uk, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  18. ^ Ayrshire & Renfrewshire Methodist Circuit Home page. Arc-methodists.org.uk, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  19. ↑ ' Paisley ' on searchforhope.org
  20. ^ Anne Simpson in: Glasgow Herald. 7 June 2004.
  21. ↑ a b c d e 10 reasons why Paisley is already a city of culture. In: BBC . November 13, 2015, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  22. ^ Staff writer: Write first time. In: The Stage . January 5, 1989, p. 15.