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146 APPENDIX.
POLLOKSHAWS BURGH SCHOOL. .45, Factory street ;
Thomas Scott, teacher.
NITSHILL SCHOOL, Nitshill, built by subscription, A. D. 1808;
Robert Hosie, teacher.
AULDFIELD SCHOOL.. 17, Hunter street, Pollokshaws;
James M'Ewan, teacher.
POST OFFICE, 2 POLLOK STREET, POLLOKSHAWS.
Arrival of Post.
FROM GLASGOW daily, (foot post) half-past six o'clock evening.
Departure of Post.
TO GLASGOW daily, (foot post) half-past eight o'clock morning.
Office open from 7 morning till 9 evening.
James Burton, post master. .Henry Burton, letter carrier.
(N.B. For Rates of Postage, see Paisley Directory, pages 89, 90.)
STAGE COACHES.
The Royal George Stage Coach to GLASGOW, starts (every law-
ful day) from the Coach Offices of W. Kessan, No. 1, Harriet street,
and A. Hosie, 29, Main street, Pollokshaws, at ten o'clock morning,
half-past five afternoon, and 9 evening. .And to POLLOKSHAWS,
from the Coach Office, Old Tolbooth Steeple, Cross, Glasgow, nine
morning, four afternoon, and at nine o'clock evening. Fares
Inside 9d., Outside 6d.
The Royal Sovereign Stage Coach, from IRVINE to GLASGOW
by the Lochleibo road, arrives every lawful day at Pollokshaws
Toll Bar at half-past ten o'clock in the morning; and arrives
again, at same Toll Bar, from Glasgow to Irvine, at half-past four
o'clock afternoon.
The Levern Trader Stage Coach, from BARRHEAD to
GLASGOW, arrives every lawful day, (Thursday excepted) at Mr.
John Hills, Pollokshaws Toll Bar, at half-past ten o'clock morn-
ing; and arrives again, at same Toll Bar, from Glasgov\r to Barr-
head, at half-past five o'clock afternoon.
CARRIERS.
To Glasgow. .John Deans, from 40, Main street, Pollokshaws,
every Wednesday and Friday at 10 o'clock morning, and returns
same day.
To Glasgow.. Andrew Wilson, from 38, King street, Pollokshaws,
every Wednesday and Friday at 10 o'clock morning, and re-
turns same day.
-To Glasgow. .John Dunlop, from Newton of Mearns, arrives every
Wednesday morning at Alexander Miller's, vintner, Thornlie-
bank ; and arrives again at same place, from Glasgow to New-
ton of Mearns, same day.