Looking along the Forth and Clyde Canal to the Temple gas holders. These once held the town gas produced by heating coal at the surrounding Temple Gas Works. This gas was then used to power both street and domestic lights, but when bubbled through milk, it produced a purple mixture known locally as electric soup which, while potentially lethal, had an intoxicating and mildly hallucinagenic effect when drunk.

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