19 March 2024
  • 19 March 2024

Gary Chittick captures the beauty of Renfrewshire

on 13 January 2023 0

Award-winning photographer and regular Mill Magazine contributor Gary Chittick showcases incredible landscape images taken in our beautiful region A. The Bascule Bridge in Renfrew is the only remaining rolling lift bridge in the country. B. Early starts but it’s not Morocco, it’s the Mile End Mill in Paisley at sunrise. One of the many legacy...

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Renfrewshire Photos by West College Scotland students

on 3 August 2022 0

Renfrewshire Photos: Photography Students from West College Scotland take to the streets to find and capture photos of their favourite buildings in Renfrewshire. Renfrew Town Hall: This Category A-listed building was designed by James Jamieson Lamb and Baillie James Barr Lamb in the French Gothic style and cost £7,500. It was officially opened by...

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A Love Letter to Renfrew

on 1 March 2020 0

Steeped in its rich heritage but with no shortage of hope for a glistening future, Lawren Matthews takes us through a guided tour of her hometown. Royal borough and “Cradle Of The Stewarts”, Renfrew has a storied history and innovative nature that not only shines throughout its past but permeates through to the present...

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A Love Letter to Kilmacolm

on 1 June 2019 0

The journalist and broadcaster Paul English revisits his idyllic childhood home. I didn’t properly appreciate it until long after I’d left. The discovery of R.J. Price’s 2002 short story collection, A Boy In Summer, and its references to a Renfrewshire coming of age, helped me realise. Now when I return to Kilmacolm, which I do...

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A Love Letter to Bishopton

on 1 May 2019 0

Writer Kirsteen Paterson is your field guide to a little village with lots to offer.  Accessible, friendly and safe, it’s not hard to see why more and more people are choosing to live in Bishopton. That’s thanks in no small part to the Dargavel Village development, which is still under construction and promises to...

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A Love Letter to Johnstone

on 1 March 2019 0

Local artist and designer Rebecca Johnstone actually lives in her namesake. Follow her guide to the town’s many treasures. I’ve been a Johnstone resident for over eight years now. It’s a bustling little town in the heart of Renfrewshire, offering the ideal commute to Glasgow or down towards the coast. Planned in a grid...

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