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28 the advertizer t: 01505 613340 07731 923970 e: info@advertizer.co.uk Orchard Flooring Stylish, Durable: A Floor for Life When choosing a new fl oor for your home, there are a few things to take into consideration. For a lot of our clients, having a floor that isn’t going to be ruined by mucky feet, paw prints or spills is a top priority. For this reason, light cream carpets can be problematic for many busy households. Karndean and Amtico fl ooring are perfect for any room or situation in the home. They are both waterproof, slip resistant and warm underfoot, as well as being a beautiful and luxurious floor to be proud of. Both are easy to clean and without the porous qualities of wood and some stone. They bring the ageless beauty of natural flooring to your home without the hassle. Be it a rustic wood effect in the living room or a sleek and modern stone effect in the kitchen, Orchard Flooring can provide expert advice to find the perfect floor for a room. With a home sampling service why not give us a call and be on your way to a stunning fl oor from Orchard Flooring. You can contact Scott on 01505 22 9584 or 07563 633 432 E: sjmproducts@hotmail.com websitewww.orchard-fl ooring.com LOCAL history Johnstone History Society Our February meeting will be held Tuesday 14th in the Masonic Hall Collier Street at 7.30 pm. Our speaker this month will be our own secretary Valerie Reilly and appropriately her talk will be “For This Was Seynt Volantynys Day - Valentine Traditions” this should be a very interesting evening. Visitors and new members will always be made welcome. We had an excellent attendance at our fi rst meeting of 2017 and everyone enjoyed Sheina’s informative and entertaining talk on “Six Cord Thread”. The Museum has reopened after our festive break and continues to open on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10.30am till 4pm. We still have a few Calendars available which are now £3.50 with an envelope £4 . Our usual books and publications are also on sale. Kilbarchan - 4th February 1917 George Anderson was born in Kilbarchan in 1884. The 1901 census records that he lived with his father, George 56, a self-employed dairyman, Mary aged 29, Julia 20, an assistant draper: George was then 17 and an apprentice bank clerk with the Clydesdale Bank in Kilbarchan. The family home was at 16 New Street. In 1911 he was a lodger at 42 Priory Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick. On the 2nd October 1912 he married Margaret Knott at the Parish Church in Barnes: they set up home at Boileau Road, Ealing. He was a month short of his 32nd birthday when he volunteered for the Royal Field Artillery on 10th December 1915. In December 1916 he was recommended for officer training but he was soon after transferred to the infantry, the 1st Battalion Border Regiment, 87th Brigade, 29th Division. His record with the battalion lasts from 7th January 1917 to 4th February 1917, when he died of gun shot wounds to the back and left arm. George had moved to the National Bank of India in Bishopgate, London in 1903 and had eventually become a manager. He left a widow and one son. He is buried at Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, near Albert, Somme. Black Cart Mills 6: Kilbarchan Burn Continuing our journey down the Black Cart Opposite the site of Johnstone Old Cotton Mill, is an arch in the high stone retaining wall supporting the former railway (now the cycle path). This marks the entry of the Kilbarchan Burn into the Cart. The burn rises in bogland on Marshall Moor. Above the village, it passes through Glentyan Estate, where it has been dammed to create a large pond and high level lade, passing over ornamental cascades. This pond was party to store water to drive Glentyan Mill. However it also seems to have been diverted south of Bank Brae to the bleachfields in the centre of the village (see below). Glentyan Mill was a traditional grain mill of which ruins survive. Although famed for its weaving industry, Kilbarchan is one of the only Renfrewshire villages not to have a big cotton mill. The nearest cotton mill to the village was at Cartside. A relatively late proposal to erect a large steam powered cotton mill nearer the village in 1825 never emerged. However Kilbarchan did make innovative use of its water resources. Just downstream from Glentyan Mill was a water powered thread mill in a converted house built over the burn by James Alexander in 1756. The previous year Alexander had invented a machine ‘to go by water for twining thread’ and received a grant of twenty pounds from The Board of Trustees for Manufacture. Alexander’s house is shown on Roy’s map of 1755, situated west of the kirkyard directly on the Kilbarchan Burn. This linen thread mill can lay claim to being the first water-powered thread mill in Scotland. In the heart of the village in the 1780s were at least six bleachfi elds which bleached the fine textiles which had been hand woven in the village. These bleachfields were located in the Bog Park, although only scant evidence remains today. Downstream of the village there is a tradition of another mill in the Victorian period. Beyond this, the lower parts of the burn pass through Milliken Estate, where the burn was straightened and passed over cascades supplying ponds, before entering the Black Cart at Johnstone. 2017, Stuart Nisbet, Renfrewshire Local History Forum © RLHF next archaeology lecture will be held in the Shawl Gallery in Paisley Museum on 9th February, 2017, when Colin Sparrow will speak on Excavation of a Viking Trading site in Gottland. Visitors are welcome at all our lecture meetings.
@GryffeAds www.advertizer.co.uk february 2017 29 29 Support for Small Business Small Business Bonus Scheme exempts 100,000 properties from business rates this year. More than half of all commercial properties will pay no business rates in 2017-18, Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has announced. As a result of the Small Business Bonus Scheme (SBBS) an estimated 100,000 small business premises in Scotland will pay no business rates in 2017-18. The SBBS has already saved small businesses over £1.2 billion since the scheme was introduced in 2008. In the Draft Budget Mr Mackay announced that the SBBS will be expanded, raising the eligibility threshold for 100% relief to a rateable value of £15,000 – lifting 100,000 properties out of rates altogether, and generating a saving of up to £6,990 per property. Visiting Mad Hatter’s Coffee House in Paisley, which will now qualify for 100% relief through the SBBS, Mr Mackay said: “I was pleased to set out a range of further measures in the Draft Budget to confirm a highly competitive business rates regime for Scotland in 2017-18, including expanding the Small Business Bonus Scheme. “Scotland’s small businesses are fundamental drivers in securing sustainable economic growth, which is why we are doing everything we can to support them. Scotland already offers the most competitive reliefs package for small businesses in the UK, and we intend to keep our promise that Scotland will be the best place to do business anywhere in the UK.”
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