Paisley.... A Film by Neil.

[@stuartkennedy4202]

Excellent. I’m still here but these pictures make me feel home sick.

[@johnhiggins2983]

Thanks for that Neil, left Paisley for Manchester in 1972, still here , but Paisley still pulls me back, take care good video's

[@patriciayohn6136]

Very nice to see the place where my Paternal Great Great Grandfather lived before he emigrated to Philadelphia in 1859. Thank you.

[@harrykinloch5156]

Nice film that captures the mood and character of my old home town over time.

[@alstewart8349]

Many memories . . . thanks!

[@angieframe3862]

Beautiful pictures Neil

[@panspermiahunter7597]

5:02 that could be my dad on his motorbike, if that is around 1952/54 he was in the army, lived in Ferguslie park and loved his motorbikes.

[@christinestevenson4892]

Hi Neily, Tommy Stevenson here. Great film! X

[@broonbreed]

Hi, Tommy. Nice to hear from you. It has been many moons.

[@colboysigmax]

I remember them taking down the triangular sign for the Kelburn cinema! It fell and dropped onto a parked bar! Nobody injured.

[@feefs1000]

Hello Neil, enjoyed the film I was just talking about you the other day to my brother Rab Elliot ,he gave me a c.d of you playing years ago and I have lost it wondering where I can get a replacement ..good memories of the old days back in Tennant road..hard days but looking back they were great days...go well Neil...Rab and Davy Elliot....

[@broonbreed]

+Fiona Grant Hi Fiona. Nice to hear from you. Been wondering about Rab & Davey just recently. Friend me on Facebook so I can find out more . Cheers, Neil xx

[@stevepatrick3913]

the astoria {flea pit} glen cinema horrible disaster paisley jail the coffin end west end original taxi rank gilmour st a thriving high st so sad what it has become i love the town (should have been a city) its a mere shadow of what it once was i visit often and it always upsets me.

[@scottwinters3726]

Who is the female singer ? Was very interesting , i remember the auld piazza

[@broonbreed]

Hi, Scott. The female singer is an Irish girl called ENYA. She sang Orinoco flow which topped the charts for 3-weeks in the late eighties.

[@scottwinters3726]

@@broonbreed thank you, i did'nt recognise the song, but i do know who enya is, nice film of paisley.

[@janethrnton3988]

Paisley is a dump now. I paid a visit there back in the summer been down south for 46 years.

[@laurabenelli]

well itis good that you are both not here... It is a great wee town and frankly if you are going to be negative .. just do not bother

[@comedywriter8408]

@Wee Mac I see your vocabulary hasn't improved much since you left.

[@leylandblooter6515]

Cheerio, then.

[@clairemcfadyen1036]

@@laurabenelli I am 37 and Paisley is my hometown. I am sorry Lauraclaire but your attitude is precisely what is wrong with Paisley. Can't you see the absolute state it is in?. How on earth can Paisley hope to be fixed when you're so wilfully blind to the reality of what Paisley has become?. Paisley twenty year's ago was a beautiful town. Today's Paisley bares no resemblance to the town of my youth. I remember back when entire Paisley scheme's would have their young teams move out the smackheads and smackdealers that appeared. . Sadly, many of those once young ones are now smackheads themselves. Or dead. I cannot begin to tell you how many loved ones I have lost to drugs which have been flooded into Paisley on purpose in order for it to be the state it is today. The people are destroyed. Utterly, utterly broken. The people have no hope. They are sick and hurting both in mind and in body. Perhaps your own life is good, but for the majority of Paisley that is not so. Take yourself out from your own life for a couple of hours and sit yourself down outside a cafe and observe the people. The term broken doesn't even begin to cover it for the vast majority of Paisley's population. The town is rotting, both in the minds of the people and the buildings which are being left to degrade. There is no incentive to start a business in Paisley. We once had a wealthy, vibrant, bustling, happy and healthy high street full of good quality shops. Now we have charity shops, pound shops and pawn shops. To deny all of this is to deny Paisley the chance to get back on her feet. I implore you, if you truly love Paisley then please face Paisley's sharp decline, otherwise she will never be fixed.