People's Palace
Social history museum and glasshouse built for the working East End, set on an ancient public green.
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This guide to the People's Palace on Glasgow Green turns away from the exhibits and toward the women who worked the grass outside for centuries, washing, bleaching and drying the city's linen. It reaches back to the first public steamie of the seventeen-thirties, the tubs and the suds, and the soldiers and young men who learned not to cross the washerwomen. Best heard standing outside the palace, looking out over the open Green.
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