Johnny Blues Well

According to local tradition, Johnny Blue was a print maker in the dye works who walked past the well going home to Neilston and reputedly washed the blue dye off himself there. His real name was James Ferguson and he came from Gateside. Ferguson was also a poet, two of his poems appeared in Vale of Leven poet, Hugh Caldwell's 1903 collection as part of a brief flyting between the two writers {{Blockquote |text=<poem>"Johnnie Blue" wis a poet, Gateside his abode, His well's situated on Neilston back-road, An' over its waters he cast a great spell, That they'd a' be poets who drank oot the well.