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Renfrewshire Restored - Robert Tannahill

Renfrewshire Restored is a project from Renfrewshire Leisure which looks at historical film from Renfrewshire. These are the films of Falconer Houston, a local art teacher who made films about Paisley with local schoolchildren in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Like many old films from the last century Falconer’s films lay forgotten in the back of cupboard and were only rediscovered due to hard work of the members of the Camcorder Club. SUBTITLES The grave of Paisley poet Robert Tannahill in the grounds of Canal Street Church in a serious state of neglect until the first and second year pupils of nearby Castlehead High School embarked on a project for European Architectural Heritage Year. Tannahill is famed for his nature poetry: Ye dark waving plantings, ye green shady bowers, Your charms ever varying view, My soul's dearest transports, my happiest hours, Have owed half their pleasures to you. But even when at work, Robert’s mind seldom wandered from his writing: Yon caul sleety could skiffs alang the bleak mountain. And shakes the dark firs on the stey rocky brae. Throughout his life Tannahill was troubled by a weakness in one of his legs. It was this slight limp that prevented him from accompanying his sweetheart, Jenny Tennant, to a local dance. Jenny spent the whole evening in the company of another young weaver In addition to this heartbreak, Tannahill was to receive further personal disappointment over the proposed second edition of his poems which he sent to the Edinburgh publisher Archibald Constable On 16th May 1810, Tannahill, on returning from an outing to Glasgow, went to bed suffering from a fever. But it was more than mere physical illness that troubled the poet. With great concern, his mother and nephew tended him well into the night. Later, when it was discovered that in his sickness he had left the cottage, Peter Burnett went to search for him in the direction of Brediland.