It also provided utilities such as electricity and gas, and in 1859, it created the first council-owned public water suppy in the UK in a a bid to improve the city's health through the provision of fresh, clean drinking water.
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Through this, it provided a wide range of services to try to inprove the lives of its population, including extensive public housing, schools, art galleries and museums, public transport, public health, and parks.
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A plaque marking trees planted alongside the Clyde at Glasgow Green to commemorate the demise of the Glasgow Corporation, and its replacement by the City of Glasgow District Council, in 1975.
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Glasgow Corporation Water Works access cover from a street in Finnieston in Glasgow. This is a very functional item of street furniture, but there's something very pleasing about its design.
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The weird thing is that the lamp would most likely have been operated by the Corporation's Lighting Department, which usually had their own similarly branded Lucy boxes.
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This Glasgow Corporation Electrical Department Lucy box on Dykebar Avenue in Knightswood is the only one I've come across with a street lamp base fitted to its top.
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Vintage bus garage in Glagow. About a dozen double decker buses on either side of a long concrete gangway. The buses to the left are mainly red in colour, the buses to the right are most Glasgow Corporation/Glasgow City buses, except fo the top two.
I enjoyed my conducted tour of the Bridgeton Vintage Bus Garage in Glasgow last week. I daresay that at some one point in my long life, I may have been a passenger on one of those yellow/orange/green double deckers to the right.
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