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William Harley employed stonemason firms to build the first terraces of townhouses which were along the southside of
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By 1802, and now married to Jane Laird of
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Eventually he designed and built three cowsheds housing 300 cows. Harley's principles of hygiene continue today worldwide, involving strict practices in employee cleanliness, sterilisation of equipment, and improved animal cleanliness and husbandry, with increased output and quality of milk. This
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After his success supplying water and milk to the city and suburbs, in 1815 Harley was asked to supply bread to the city. His employees started baking bread, biscuits etc. and selling to
Glasgow and its suburbs, and distributing it by steamer to towns along the
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to write a book on his methods which he finally published in 1829, a year before his death in London. Harley also built a viewing gallery within his byres, charging admission from people wishing to view the milking.
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formed by some contemporaries in an attempt to keep them going. However the Royal Bank of
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In 1921 the Pen & Pencil Club erected a plaque in recognition of Harley on
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The creation of the main parts of the New Town of Blythswood from West Nile Street westwards to Blythswood Square. Founder of the principles of hygiene in dairying, first in Europe.
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to start developing the area as part of the Campbell's planned New Town of Blythswood. This was land just west of the partly developed Buchanan Street rising westward to the future
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The Harleian dairy system : and an account of the various methods of dairy husbandry pursued by the Dutch. Also, a new and improved mode of ventilating stables
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directly to people's doors via water tanks on carts. However, when the very new Glasgow Waterworks Company and Cranstonhill Company started pumping water from the
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Graeme Smith wrote a biography of William Harley and family and the development of Glasgow's New Town of Blythswood from 1800 to the present day, in 2021.
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