6 Thread Street, Paisley (1917–1921) is where Annie Sharp Cumming lived prior tom emigration at the age of three.
In 1921, 6 Thread Street was part of a bustling, stone tenement block built right in the industrial heart of Paisley's Seedhill district, with the street itself intersecting directly with the river. Your grandmother grew up here as the youngest of 11 children in a tight-knit tenement community, spending her earliest childhood playing right at the corner of this block.
Workers outside Anchor Mills in Paisley
### The Block Layout & Corner
While the building directly adjacent to No. 6 shared the exact block corner and intersection, there was no officially named municipal "Sharp Street" on that specific block at the time. Instead, property records from 1917 to 1921 reveal the following layout details:
