THE cruel scale of the economic crisis of the 1980s was nowhere more clearly illustrated than in Paisley, where J&P Coats textile factory cut 1000 jobs.
Paisley was regarded as the UK's major textile centre. Just after the Second World War, the industry employed 20,000 people locally but, because of falling demand and increased competition from abroad, the numbers had slumped to just 2500.
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