{"id":22719,"date":"2016-08-12T22:29:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-lanark-former-workers-paradise-now-commuter-heaven\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T22:33:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:33:20","slug":"lets-move-to-lanark-former-workers-paradise-now-commuter-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-lanark-former-workers-paradise-now-commuter-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Lanark: former workers\u2019 paradise, now commuter heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt has a world heritage site preserving Robert Owen\u2019s utopian mill and planned communityWhat\u2019s going for it? A fair few commuting executives schlepping to and from Glasgow each day have created their own little utopias on the banks of the Clyde, their thinking about the future of mankind rarely reaching higher than an electrically operated garage and a NutriBullet. Robert Owen got there first. He had bigger fish to fry, like the future of humanity. As a lesson to industrial Gradgrinds up and down the country, and in the wake of the French Revolution, this industrial magnate built his own utopia to pull us hoi polloi out of the slums. His \u201cvillage of unity\u201d, New Lanark, put the welfare of workers centre stage, with a day nursery (in 1798!), a children\u2019s playground (in 1798!), an adult education centre (in 1798!), the slightly scary-sounding Institute for the Formation of Character, and a hot tub in each home. OK, so I made up the hot tub bit. But Owen\u2019s vision was freakishly forward-thinking. So much so that we\u2019re all still waiting for his promised land to materialise. In the meantime Old Lanark will have to suffice, its pretty centre the first spot outside Glasgow where you can escape the industrial smudge and breeeeaaaathe.The case against\u2026 The usual small-town blues. At least the bright lights of Glasgow are nearby to quell the tedium. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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