Welcome to Paisley People’s Archive
Paisley People’s Archive is a community based project which focuses on the social history of Paisley’s industrial heritage and related leisure activities. Consisting of digitally recorded oral history interviews, archival research, and old and new images, the Archive recreates Paisley’s history as remembered by its people.
The first phase of this unique collection focuses on the thread mills, with workers and managers revealing their personal stories of working life in the mills and what they got up to in their free time. If you have stories or images to share, please contact us and speak with one of our volunteer oral history interviewers.
The Archive is a work in progress and the website will be updated regularly. If you don’t see what you’re looking for this time, check again soon!
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Paisley Snapshots
Paisley's past is a rich and colourful tapestry of settlement, religion, industry, and larger than life personalities. Its past, people and places have ensured the town's prominent p...
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Thread Mills
Featuring images, film, and oral history sound clips, the Archive captures the reminiscences and memories of Paisley's people through the various industries which once flourished in t...
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Heritage Trails
Heritage trails exist throughout Paisley. They are a great way of exploring the town, and finding out a little more about some of the sites and monuments along the way. Take a walkin...
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Memoryscapes
In glorious black, white and technicolour, our memoryscapes feature recorded interviews, old photographs and newly created images and film, to capture Paisley's industrial past.
