The building pictured is just like many others from a similar period in Paisley’s grey and industrial past.
But this block of flats, at the junction of Neilston Road and Rowan Street, had a special place in the town’s history.
The photograph, taken in the 1920s, was of a famous building known as the Dovesland Stane, or Dooslan Stane to Buddies.
It was home not only to many Paisley families, but also to the famous ‘stane’ itself, although this was removed a couple of decades later.
It was at the stane that the town’s famous old Charleston weavers use to air grievances against Paisley mill owners.
The left-wing workers would also review the hot political topics of their time.
A decision was taken to remove the stane to Brodie Park, where it was situated next to the drinking fountain at the Braid’s Road entrance.
When the old public house at the other corner of Rowan Street was pulled down, new premises were built and the pub was named The Dooslan Stane, in honour of bygone days in Charleston.
And the link remains to this day, as the annual Sma’ Shot Day parade – in honour of Paisley’s weavers – leaves from the Dooslan Stane in Brodie Park.
As the parade snakes its way through the streets of the town, and the pavements are lined by hundreds of tourists and townsfolk alike, eyes focus on the Charleston Drum.
The original drum found its way from the Battle of Waterloo to Paisley, where it rallied the Charleston handloom weavers.
The South End artisans were so radical that their neighbourhood was known as the independent republic of Charleston.
Whenever the weavers had grievances with their paymasters, the Charleston Drum, as the Waterloo Drum was renamed, summoned them to political rallies.
During the 19th century, the Charleston Weavers had a strong trade union, so the black drum – embellished with a thistle – resounded regularly through cobbled streets with their thatched houses.
Calling meetings by tuck of drum was illegal – but that didn’t stop the weavers sounding theirs at every opportunity to show they feared no one in their disputes.
The battle-scarred drum tolled victory during one notable dispute when the weavers forced bosses to pay them for producing small shot in their shawls. Small shot is a hidden width of plain yarn which supports the fabric.
The clack of the last shuttle in the last Charleston handloom is long hushed. The weavers’ web of life was severed forever decades ago.
And the old drum which reverberated at Waterloo and in the Charleston is now on view in Paisley Museum. But the drumbeat of its replica still echoes during the annual Sma’ Shot Day celebrations.