Old photograph of people in Houston Square in Johnstone located three miles West of Paisley, Scotland. Johnstone was largely a planned community which grew up around the house of Easter Cochrane, later known as Johnstone Castle, seat of the Houston or Houstoun family who gained their name from the nearby village of Houston. In 1782, the Laird, George Houstoun, commissioned designs for a series of regular residential streets and square which now form the town centre. At this early stage of development, the town’s population including the local estate and rural hinterland was around 1,500.
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