love st paisley

[florabrooks]

Hi everyone.
        Could any one tell me if a travelling fair used to go to Love St. Paisley,i have a record of a death in 1919, of a Margaret Wilson dying at the show ground there. Margaret was my gr gr grandmother,looking to find out if Wilson family travelled with a fair.Thanks for any help.Flora

[cuthie]

A fair used to come to Paisley during the first two weeks of August, which locally is called the "Paisley Fair".  It used to take place at St James Park which is not too far from Love Street.

[carolineasb]

Hi Flora

The other possibility is that there may even have been a fair at "The Fountain Gardens".  This is a park that runs between Love Street and Caledonia Street in Paisley and I think it's been a park for some time.

Rgds

Caroline

[florabrooks]

Hi Cuthie and Caroline, Thanks for replying to post, I have been looking for the Wilson family for a while now,They seemed to have travelled a lot,my grandmothers father was a horse dealer,thats why i was wondering if they travelled from fair to fair, I think the family may have stayed in the Renfrew area early 1900,s. as i seem to remember my grans brother coming to visit when i was small and i think that they stayed in Paisley.Thanks again for your help, i will definately follow the leads you both have given.
    Flora

[WILLIAM 1]

the travelling fair was at st.james park in paisley as the person told you but st.james park was a racecourse in them days as well . and everyone knows st.james park as the racecourse now everyone calls it that i am 47 and it has been the racecourse all my life that is the only name i use for it. and it is the council football pitches now but the fair still go there to this day have you tried to contact paisley town hall or paisley museum send them an e.mail with every thing that you know and see what happens good luck

there is all so books that you can get from the book shop the cheap one (cant remember the name of the shop )

the one you will want is( old paisley)

http://www.oldpaisley.co.uk/

[Ann Baker]

Flora

William is quite right. the fair was held on the oldracecourse - now football pitches and always Paisley fair - 1st fortnight August.

Fountain gardens still there but much smaller.

I used to go to both when a bairn

Ann