nostr:npub1uea7tkeg5s86a8g7x2vfusdjhqxc44sw370qksr7ftcj2h8hg3kqn27jm3 nostr:npub1vucaxpxepnwxg58f0utzwaqnpqtpykf6zz56n7atfefnr3lzqxrq6px8cc Yes, this is something I'm planning on covering at some point soon, especially the streey furniture which shows Glasgow developed and ran all its own utilities (water, gas, electicity, phones) for the benefit of its own people rather than for overseas share holders. It was the perfect circular economy which gave the old Glasgow Corporation the income to do amazing things for the city which we can now only dream about.
nostr:npub1ug8yq5ccfa64v3p6axqw8f94qxlznep53l22vjuecpd3629cqjhsgnytkq nostr:npub1vucaxpxepnwxg58f0utzwaqnpqtpykf6zz56n7atfefnr3lzqxrq6px8cc There's a whole area of "under our feet" #ScottishHistory that gets so little attention, for example, the pre-centralisation local provision of electrical supply (which also kept the financial benefit local), this hydraulic service, all the way to provisions like the cabled Glasgow schools TV in the late 60s/ early 70s.
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nostr:npub1ug8yq5ccfa64v3p6axqw8f94qxlznep53l22vjuecpd3629cqjhsgnytkq nostr:npub1uea7tkeg5s86a8g7x2vfusdjhqxc44sw370qksr7ftcj2h8hg3kqn27jm3 nostr:npub1vucaxpxepnwxg58f0utzwaqnpqtpykf6zz56n7atfefnr3lzqxrq6px8cc Water was an interesting one because the original piped system (early C19th) was private; it's really only with the city's rise in the mid-C19th that they had the confidence to invest in a publicly owned supply.