Johnstone

Coordinates: 55°50′05″N 4°30′10″W / 55.83461°N 4.50272°W / 55.83461; -4.50272

Johnstone (Scots: Johnstoun,Scottish Gaelic: Baile Iain) is a town in the council area of Renfrewshire and larger historic county of the same name in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

The town lies 3 miles (5 km) west of neighbouring Paisley and 12 miles (19 km) west of the centre of the city of Glasgow. Part of the biggest conurbation in Scotland, Johnstone is at the western edge of the Greater Glasgow Urban Area.

The town was a planned community created in the latter half of the 18th century by the local Laird, George Ludovic Houston who held an estate in the town, the remains of which are known as Johnstone Castle. Industrial development brought coal mining, thread-making and cotton weaving to Johnstone causing it to grow considerably in size, expanding out in the 1930s with a number of newly built residential areas which addressed the problem of population density in the historic area of the town. Today it supports a small commercial centre and serves as a commuter settlement for Paisley and Glasgow.

Saint Johnstown

Saint (or St) Johnstown (or Johnston or Johnstone) may refer to the following places:

See also

Jimmy Johnstone

James Connolly "Jimmy" Johnstone (30 September 1944 – 13 March 2006), nicknamed "Jinky", was a Scottish football player. Johnstone was best known for his time with Celtic, and was voted their best ever player by the club's fans in 2002. He scored 129 goals for Celtic in 515 appearances.

Early life & career

Johnstone was the youngest of five children born to Matthew and Sarah Johnstone. He grew up in the family home on Old Edinburgh Road in Viewpark, South Lanarkshire, and he was educated at St Columba's primary school in Viewpark and then at St John's secondary school in Uddingston. In 2003, Johnstone stated that he was a Catholic.

His footballing ability first came to note at primary school, playing for the St Columba's team that won three trophies between 1953–54. The team at his secondary school, St John's, were less able but their Physical Education teacher, Tommy Cassidy, was a friend of Sammy Wilson who played for Celtic at the time and had scored in Celtic's 7–1 win over Rangers in the 1957 Scottish League Cup Final. Cassidy used his connections to get Johnstone a role as a ball boy at Celtic.

Jimmy Johnstone: Lord of the Wing

Jimmy Johnstone: Lord of the Wing is a 2004 documentary narrated by Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, on the career of Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone, a Celtic FC and Scottish footballer in the 1960s and '70s and voted Celtic's greatest ever player by the fans of the club. The 'Lord of the Wing' is so well loved by Celtic fans that two memorial bronze statue tributes to the legendary player have been erected in his honour, one outside Celtic's Parkhead stadium and the other in the year 2011 in a memorial garden of remembrance on a site at his former school close to where he grew up on the Old Edinburgh Road, Viewpark, Uddingston. The garden was opened by Jimmy Johnstone's wife, family and some of the surviving members of the 'Lisbon Lions' team. The bronze life size statue created by sculptor John McKenna from Ayrshire was paid for by money raised by the Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone memorial statue fund and the memorial garden from kind donations from the public and the business world. A plaque on the statue reads "Jinky - the greatest ever Celt".

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