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Local knowledge and painful experience comes in handy! (Little did I know this when was having the agony 25+ years ago! More re the agony below)
The pits were looking at the V junction where the Thorn pub sits in the middle as described previously to the left hand side of the road (with Paisley and Elderslie behind you)
The pain? I lived in a house built in the 1930s which was over old mine workings and potential subsidence became an issue when I wanted to sell up and go to London to live and there was a lot of umming and ahhing when I came to sell it in 1984 about mine workings underneath. It all got sorted! It was fine!
But Paisley central library has very good maps of all the old mine workings - I made very good use of them at the time!
Just before you get to the V junction (about 100yds before) on your left the road goes up a hill that was the mining area (basically where Johnstone Castle housing estate is and the top part of Elderslie. Closest I can think of as the roads are now is check out Auchenlodment Road on google maps and that was kind of the nub of it.
Ah happy days!
Ann
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