Glasgow in 1901

First published 100 years ago to celebrate the Second City of Empire at the start of the 20th century, this book should be of interest to any lover of Glasgow. With a mixture of highly-coloured description and revealing fact, the book evokes a smoke-hazed and sombre city, ringing and thundering with heavy industry, a place not beautiful but alive and splendid. Glasgow's development in the 19th century is recorded as recent history. There is information, for instance, on the Corporation's dynamic intervention in the provision of public services - the achievement of 1901 was the electrification of the tram system, one of the jewels in Glasgow's famous municipal crown.