The buildings at the top end of High Street, with the Greek Thomson facade comprise the town's library and museum. The museum features a magnificent collection of old looms and Paisley shawls and features a large scale tile map of the town as it was in 1839, which you can walk over. Buildings which still exist are highlighted and the map is an excellent way of unscrambling those old addresses for ancestors found in census records as many of the old streets no longer exist.

Across the road from the museum there is a large kilt shop, with another equally large basement floor.

Claims to be the only kilt shop in the world where you can view every tartan.
I've got this addiction real bad - I didn't come out again until I had ordered two new tanks - a Wallace Hunting Modern from House of Edgar and a Paisley from Marton Mills, both 17 oz weight with teflon coating for protection against spills.

Paisley's statue of Robert Burns is situated in the Fountain Gardens.

The bard is depicted with his plough

My great grandmother Jane Fleming was born in Wishaw. Orphaned at an early age, she came to Paisley, where her mother had been born, and census records show her living in lodgings in Love Street and working as a shawl maker prior to her marriage to Alexander Cunningham in 1884. This group of old buildings in Love Street would have been familiar to her.

For many years she and her husband and family lived at 19, School Wynd, and their unmarried daughter, my father's aunt, continued to live there for a further thirty years after their death. Their home was a flat within this building, now used as offices. School Wynd is a back lane, running parallel to and slightly higher than High Street and the ground floor of this building forms a shop accessed from High Street.
More to follow shortly.