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  • The Function of Streets – Social Purposes  or Transit Routes?

    The Function of Streets – Social Purposes or Transit Routes?

    Most of my musings will be based on research I carried out for a PhD. Anyone wishing to read in-depth analysis will find it in my thesis entitled ‘Electrifying the streets: the surface-contact controversy in five English towns 1880-1920’. This first blog will be about the meaning of streets to the Victorians, how streets were…