I love these ornate Victorian-style cast iron benches as there's just so much going on. This particular example is in Fountain Gardens in Paisley, but you can also find them in the Kibble Palace in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow.

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Paisley Abbey, interior.

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Paisley Book Festival 2026
15–17 May

The Paisley Book Festival is a platform for celebrating books, reading and writing in Paisley over the course of three days.

Now entering its seventh year, the theme for the 2026 Paisley Book Festival is “Everyday Heroes, Everlasting Icons”.

For the full programme of events, visit the PBF website:

https://paisleybookfestival.com/programme-full/

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The front door at Paisley Cathedral.

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So, it's due to the persistence of one women from Glasgow, and the now-infamous deceased snail, that we now have many of the statutes which help protect us from negligence to this day.

This statue, called Dear Duty, honours May Donoghue's persistence ans was created by Mandy McIntosh. It was erected in 2018 on Wellmeadow Street in Paisley where the cafe where she bought the fateful bottle of ginger beer once stood.

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Women have helped change the world in many different ways, but possibly the strangest involved a woman from Glasgow named May Donoghue and a dead snail. In August 1928, she travelled to the nearby town of Paisley where she bought a bottle of ginger beer which caused her to become rather ill due to the fact it contained the remains of a decaying mollusc.

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Had a great visit to the Paisley Thread Mill museum yesterday. It is volunteer run and the woman who took us round was very informative. #Paisley #FibreArts

Paisley Abbey, standing beside the White Cart Water in the heart of Paisley, Renfrewshire, with origins that date back to 1163. What you see today owes much to major restoration that took place between 1860 and 1910. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/paisley/abbey/index.html

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