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| RENFREWSHIRE
COUNCIL LIBRARIES DEPARTMENT, PAISLEY Renfrewshire Council consists of the former burghs of Johnstone, Paisley and Renfrew and the landward areas of the former Renfrew County from Langbank to Lochwinnoch and Paisley in the west and taking in the Ralston/Oldhall areas in the east. The relevant local authority archives are in the care of the Libraries Department and are administered by the Local Studies Librarian and Archivist. Some private material, especially minute books of organisations, is also held with these records. |
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| BURGH
AND LOCAL AUTHORITY RECORDS |
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| Johnstone Burgh | |||
| Council minutes | 1858-1975 | ||
| Assessment rolls | 1873- | ||
| Accounts | 1935-1975 | ||
| Dean of Guild plans | 1950s-60s | ||
| High Church centenary celebrations and history | 1892, 1893 | ||
| Paisley Burgh | |||
| Council minutes | 1655-1975 | ||
| Committee minutes | late 1800s | ||
| Burgess books (and index) | 1747-1822 | ||
| Abstract accounts and financial statements | 1862-1975 | ||
| Dean of Guild plans | 1888-1940s | ||
| School Board minutes | 1900-1911 | ||
| Voters’ register | 1937, 1938 | ||
| Renaming of streets and renumbering of properties | 1923 | ||
| Cuttings re Burgh Settlement Bill | 1871 | ||
| Burgh Cleansing Department survey report | 1969 | ||
| Burgh Engineer’s Department survey report | 1968-1969 | ||
| Burgh Public Lighting Department survey report | 1969-1970 | ||
| Housing Scheme registers | 1960s | ||
| Parliamentary election scrapbook | 1868 | ||
| Royal Paisley Volunteer Corps Orderly books | 1798-1801 | ||
| Paisley Burgh: the Cross Steeple Case, cuttings | 1871 | ||
| Renfrew Burgh | |||
| Council minutes | 1749-1975 | ||
| Assessment rolls | 1880s- | ||
| Letter books (wet copy) | 1946- | ||
| Renfrew County Council Education Committee minutes | 1919-1973 | ||
| District Council minutes | 1930 | ||
| Council minutes | 1960s-1975 | ||
| Industrial brief | c.1970 | ||
| Renfrew District Council and Renfrewshire Council | |||
| Council minutes, reports, voters’ rolls, valuation rolls | 1974- | ||
| Renfrew District Council on Alcoholism reports undated Renfrew District Library record clubs, press cuttings | 1976-1986 | ||
| Renfrew & Bute Joint Police Committee opening of new Police Building | 197- | ||
| Corporate Plan | 1992 | ||
| Strathclyde Regional Council | |||
| Council minutes | 1974- | ||
| Community Councils Minutes | 1974- | ||
| Integrated Transport Strategy | 1992 | ||
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| DEPOSITED RECORDS OF LOCAL BUSINESSES, SOCIETIES ETC | |||
| Businesses and Societies | |||
| Babcock & Wilcox, Boiler Makers, Renfrew (unsorted) | - | ||
| Bredilands Tenants Association | 1953-1973 | ||
| Bridge of Weir, Thistle Golf Club minutes | 1898-1907 | ||
| Caledonian Railway Association magazines “True Line” | 1984-1989 | ||
| Clerical and Administrative Workers Union letters & miscellaneous Clyde | undated | ||
| Shipbuilders Association correspondence | undated | ||
| Glasgow, Paisley & Ardrossan Canal proprietors meeting minutes | 1819 | ||
| Holmes, A C of Sandyford accounts | 1886-1892 | ||
| Hurlet and Nitshill Curling Club minutes and members | 1829-1858; 1895-1906 | ||
| Independent Order of Rechabites accounts | 1916-1929 | ||
| Independent Order of Rechabites minutes | 1888, 1920, 1929-1947 | ||
| Independent Order of Rechabites, Junior Section minutes | 1899-1916 | ||
| Johnstone Cricket Club minutes etc | 1919-1961 | ||
| Keanie, J Y, Builder, Johnstone, house plans | 1930s | ||
| Paisley Liberal Association Minute Book | 1922-1947 | ||
| Paisley Liberal Association members’ roll | 1891-1916 | ||
| Paisley Liberal Association, Women’s Section minutes | 1890-1902 | ||
| Paisley Liberal Association Women’s Section roll | 1898-1913 | ||
| Paisley (Trustee) Savings Bank reports | 1872-1940, 1964-1974 | ||
| Paisley Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, Paisley Branch | 1914-1959 | ||
| Out of work fund cashbook | 1914-1959 | ||
| Members’ payments | 1954-1960 | ||
| Paisley Journeyman Weavers Society of Prince’s Factors articles and regulations | 1814 | ||
| Paisley Literary & Convivial Association | undated | ||
| Paisley Operative Bricklayers’ Society relieving officer’s book | 1905-1908 | ||
| Paisley Athenaeum – membership recommendations | 1847 | ||
| Paisley Coffee Room minute book | 1829-1846 | ||
| Paisley Female Union Society, register etc | 1820 | ||
| Paisley Funeral Society laws | 1834 | ||
| Paisley Heritable Property Investment Society prospectus, laws and regulations | c. 1878 | ||
| Paisley Naturalist Society cuttings | 1898-1900 | ||
| Paisley Philosophical Institution reports | 1857-1915 | ||
| Paisley-Sneddon Curling club, articles and minutes | 1815, 1856-1880 | ||
| Paisley Theological Society, treasurer’s accounts | 1808-1850 | ||
| Paisley Praying Societies, correspondence | 1784-1820 | ||
| Paisley Sabbath and Weekday Evening Schools Society, reports | 1815-1910 | ||
| Paisley Ship constructors and Shipwrights Association correspondence | 1940-1942 | ||
| Paisley out of work coachmakers | 1896 | ||
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| Paisley Boys Brigade circulars etc | 1977- | ||
| Paisley Bakers Society minutes | 1935-1938 | ||
| Paisley District Amalgamated Engineering Union committee minutes | 1954-1961 | ||
| Paisley Belgian Relief Committee minutes | 1914-1919 | ||
| Paisley Branch National Union of Railwaymen minutes | 1917-1944 | ||
| Paisley and District Friendly Societies minutes and accounts | 1913-1931 | ||
| Paisley Bricklayers Association minutes | 1895-1902 | ||
| Paisley United Plumbers Trade Union minutes and membership | 1898-1953 | ||
| Paisley Ye Old Abercorn F C minutes | 1908-1937 | ||
| Paisley Amateur Bicycle Club minutes | 1878-1898 | ||
| Paisley Linside Amateur Rowing Club minutes | 1887-1899 | ||
| Paisley Race Meetings register of nominations | 1837-1852 | ||
| Paisley Archery Club minutes | 1858-1910 | ||
| Paisley Philosophical Institution Transactions (Mss) | 1808-1871 | ||
| Paisley Corporation of Hammermen Trans/Mss | 1808-1871 | ||
| Paisley Thistle Cricket Club minutes | 1852-1869 | ||
| Paisley Medical Society minutes | 1806-1837 | ||
| Paisley Co-op Society minutes | 1898-1907 | ||
| Paisley Co-op Manufacturing Society Board minutes | 1931-1950 | ||
| Paisley Co-op Defence Committee minutes | 1918-1921, 1927-1933 | ||
| Paisley Co-op Manufacturing Society Draper Committee minutes | 1895-1898 1943-1944, 1950-1957 | ||
| Paisley Co-op Manufacturing Society Finance Committee minutes | 1950-1951 | ||
| Paisley General Committee minutes | 1920-1953 | ||
| Paisley Grocery Club Committee minutes | 1938-1941, 1950-1957 | ||
| Paisley Manufacturing of production sub committee minutes | 1894-1895, 1937-1939 | ||
| Paisley Co-op Party minutes | 1922-1927, 1933-1970 | ||
| Paisley Provident Co-op Society reports and accounts | 1891-1930 | ||
| Paisley Provident Education Committee minutes | 1881-1862 (gaps) | ||
| Paisley Provident Co-op Society minutes | 1931-1935 | ||
| Paisley Coal Trade Association minutes | 1898-1903 | ||
| Paisley Society for the Reformation of Manners minutes | 1757-1871 | ||
| Paisley Hammermen’s Society minutes (indexed 1761-1803) | 1761-1774, 1774-1803 | ||
| Paisley London Missionary Society minutes | 1796 | ||
| Paisley Parliamentary Elections Committee minutes | 1900-1905 | ||
| Paisley Society of Social Friends minutes | 1849-1967 | ||
| Paisley Printers’ Commemorative Society minutes | 1845-1957 | ||
| Renfrew, Babcock & Wilcox Engineers miscellaneous | post 1940s | ||
| Renfrewshire Cartwright Society minutes | 1799-1817 | ||
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| Church and Welfare | |||
| Oakshaw Street UP Church Mutual Improvement Association letter book | 1888-1894 | ||
| Paisley Museum to the Deaf and Dumb reports | 1901-1935 | ||
| Paisley Gaelic Missions, register of correspondence | 1817-1833 | ||
| Paisley Presbytery minutes | 1929-1971 | ||
| Paisley – Oakshaw West Church scrapbook and miscellaneous | undated | ||
| Paisley Distress Committee minutes | 1900-1920 | ||
| Paisley Abbey Rental (1500s) copy | 1800s | ||
| Paisley Abbey restoration contract, schedules | c.1920 | ||
| Paisley Abbey parish, locality of stipend for 2nd minister | 1905 | ||
| Quarrier’s Homes reports and narratives | 1938-1966 | ||
| Quarrier’s Homes journal | 1978-1984 | ||
| St Matthew’s Church magazine | 1981-1982 | ||
| Scottish National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SNSPCC) reports | 1908, 1914- | ||
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| Education and Libraries | |||
| John Neilson High School handbooks | 1982 | ||
| Merksworth High School handbooks | 1983 | ||
| Paisley Bushes Primary School journals | 1977-1986 | ||
| Paisley School Board proceedings, cuttings | 1873-1876 | ||
| Paisley Grammar School history | 1875 | ||
| Paisley Grammar School magazines | 1923-1936, 1968-1978 | ||
| Paisley Grammar School handouts | 1983-1987 | ||
| Paisley Art Institute reports | 1879-1926 | ||
| Paisley Government School of Design minutes | c.1891-early 1900s | ||
| Paisley Industrial School reports | 1908-1925 | ||
| Paisley Library minutes and correspondence | 1851 | ||
| Paisley Library subscription cash book | 1856 | ||
| Paisley Public Library Visitors’ book | 1872 | ||
| Paisley Public Libraries cuttings and statistics | 1924-1950 | ||
| Paisley Public Library annual reports | 1946-1963 | ||
| Renfrew District Libraries – River Cart project, cuttings and notes | 1988 | ||
| Renfrew District Libraries – witchcraft project, cuttings | 1988 | ||
| Renfrew District Evening Classes/Further Education lists | 1990 | ||
| Renfrew High School handbooks | 1983-1984 | ||
| Sacred Heart High School handbooks | 1983 | ||
| St Aelred’s High School handbooks | 1983 | ||
| School Board minutes | 1900-1911 | ||
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| Health | |||
| Erskine, Princess Louise Scottish Hospital reports | 1965- | ||
| Paisley Mothers’ Clinic minutes | 1933-1963 | ||
| Paisley Craw Road Institution and District Asylum Joint Management Committee minutes | 1935-1940 | ||
| Paisley Dispensary and House of Recovery reports | 1849-1889 | ||
| Paisley Convalescent Home, West Kilbride reports | 1908-1964 | ||
| Royal Alexandra Infirmary reports | 1905-1947 | ||
| Royal Alexandra Infirmary subscriptions list | 1940 | ||
| Royal Victoria Eye Infirmary reports | 1909-1946 | ||
| Royal Victoria Eye Infirmary subscriptions list | 1943 | ||
| Miscellaneous Emergency books, manuscript | 1926-1943 | ||
| Houston Estates rentals, inventories etc | 1691-1735 | ||
| Kilmacolm Railway, papers re fight against its closure | 1980s | ||
| Manuscript notes on chemistry, geology etc by R S Houston | 1889-1937 | ||
| Manuscript notes on trade in Paisley and labour legislation | c.1977 | ||
| Middleton Farm rent receipts | 1658-1822 | ||
| Natural history drawings | undated | ||
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records available on request at the Local Studies Department, Paisley
Central Library, 68 High Street, Paisley PA1 2BB. Prior notice is required to permit access to certain items on Saturdays or after 5.00p.m. so that they can be brought into the library for consultation. Opening hours: 0900-2000 Monday-Friday, 0900-1700 Saturday Tel: 0141 889 2360 Fax: 0141 887 6468 Email: locstuds.els@renfrewshire.gov.uk Website: http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk |
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