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Auld Reekie no more
For more than a century Edinburgh was heavily dependent on fossil fuels to heat homes and power industry. Through the Industrial Revolution and well into the 20th century smoke belched from the city's chimneys, earning the town the nickname 'Auld Reekie'.
From the mid-1960s onwards, however, cleaner energy came into use, and now Edinburgh is almost smoke-free. In fact Princes Street (where the photograph was taken) is prohibited to cars and lorries, and the trams — and many buses — emit little or no pollutants. My guess is the young lady in the picture is a tourist from an Asian country where people still habitually wear masks to avoid breathing toxic fumes.
Auld Reekie no more
For more than a century Edinburgh was heavily dependent on fossil fuels to heat homes and power industry. Through the Industrial Revolution and well into the 20th century smoke belched from the city's chimneys, earning the town the nickname 'Auld Reekie'.
From the mid-1960s onwards, however, cleaner energy came into use, and now Edinburgh is almost smoke-free. In fact Princes Street (where the photograph was taken) is prohibited to cars and lorries, and the trams — and many buses — emit little or no pollutants. My guess is the young lady in the picture is a tourist from an Asian country where people still habitually wear masks to avoid breathing toxic fumes.