The smog, like heavy industry, has mostly disappeared from Glasgow but you can still get a feel of how engineering dominated the region by walking out of Glasgow along Dumbarton Road.
The city’s architectural gems, such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s “Art Noveau” Art School on Garnethill, became covered in black soot almost as soon as they were built. The smog from Glasgow’s factories was thick enough for the unwary to walk into the cold, brown, Clyde and drown. Powering Scotland’s industry was King Coal. So dynamic was teeming Glasgow that visitors believed it more like America than Europe, an illusion helped by the grid-style streets. The people of Glasgow astride the Clyde River numbered 800,000, making it “The Second City of Empire” after London.
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