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Coats Observatory was furnished with a wide range of scientific apparatus for observing the night sky and making meteorological records. In 1900 seismic monitoring equipment was installed for recording earthquakes. Coats Observatory was one of the stations across the world which recorded the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Thomas Coats (1809-1883) co-founder of the world-famous J.&P Coats company was a philanthropist and devout member of the Baptist Church.He was committed to the well-being of his town, involved in the restoration of Paisley Abbey, and in funding projects such as the construction of the Coats Observatory and Paisley Fountain Gardens.
The Museum and Art Galleries were gifted to the town of Paisley by the industrialist Sir Peter Coats in 1871. The building, which also houses Paisley Library and the Coats Observatory , [ 2 ] was designed by Glasgow architect John Honeyman of the firm of Honeyman and Keppie . [ 3 ]
Coats was a collector of Scottish coins, and his collection became the largest and most valuable of its kind. He wanted a catalogue of the specimens, and entrusted the work to Edward Burns, a Scottish numismatist. But in Burns's hands the catalogue swelled into an elaborate Coinage of Scotland (1887). It was unfinished at the time of Coats's death.
49 Oakshaw Street, Coats Observatory Category A 39072: Upload Photo: 6A Oakshaw Street (Former Church Hall) ... 3 Gilmour Street "Bank Of Scotland" Category B 38993: ...
The Institution has helped to found several local bodies, including the Paisley Free Library and Museum (1871), the Coats Observatory (1882) and Paisley Technical College and School of Art (1897; subsequently the University of Paisley, now part of the University of the West of Scotland).
In Scotland, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of "special architectural or historic interest". [1] Category A structures are those considered to be "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic, or fine little-altered examples of some ...
Andrew Coats was a member of the prosperous Coats family of thread manufacturers, who had founded the Coats Observatory at Paisley. [23] B ] Bruce joined Blencathra at Tromsø , Norway in May 1898, for a cruise which explored the Barents Sea , the dual islands of Novaya Zemlya, and the island of Kolguyev , before a retreat to Vardø in ...