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Darkwood Drive, PAISLEY, PA3 1TA

Off Ferguslie Park Avenue.

A Sheltered housing complex http://www.housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-86900-darkwood-court-ferguslie-park-scotland.aspx off Ferguslie Park Avenue.

'Ferguslie Park has improved over many years by building centres for sports and leisure for all ages. However, in 2012 the "Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation" analysis by the Scottish Government again identified Ferguslie Park as the most deprived area in Scotland.' (Source - Wikipedia). The regeneration of the estate continues. Here, smart, modern housing stands in Ferguslie Park Avenue.

Near the junction with Darkwood Drive.

Modern housing on the western edge of the estate.

Evidence of fly-tipping can be seen.

The road curves to the left at this point, possibly re-aligned when the old houses were demolished.

On Falcon Crescent. Renfrewshire Council's web site http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/4225/Falcon-Day-Centre describes the centre as follows, "Falcon Day Centre provides day care to older people who have been assessed as requiring a service to help them remain in their community and be as independent as possible. The centre caters for older people who have a diagnosis of dementia, or who have a reduced physical capacity."

Ferguslie Park, Paisley.

The distant trees mark the line of the disused Paisley and Barrhead District Railway line (known locally as the Dummy Line) http://railway.paisleyhistory.uk/pbdr.html . It was used as recently as the 1980s as a spur for the car factory at Linwood which closed at that time. Prior to the car factory, it also served as a spur for the Pressed Steel factory at Linwood which produced the "blue trains" (Class 303), which were the first electric trains for the north and south Clyde lines in the 1960s. The embankment in the foreground is to prevent access to the waste ground by unauthorised vehicles.