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Title: London Pea Soupers
Post by: Rods2 on 31 August 2013, 13:49:00

Photographs from the 20th century showing London's regular thick fogs pollution and weather based fogs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2407768/Eerie-images-London-fog-Grim-mid-winter-pictures-capital-early-20th-century.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2407768/Eerie-images-London-fog-Grim-mid-winter-pictures-capital-early-20th-century.html)

Title: Re: London Pea Soupers
Post by: dbug on 31 August 2013, 18:12:30

Remember the London fogs/smogs well back in the 50s, and in the early 60s when I first started driving.  Often it was quicker to walk!

Title: Re: London Pea Soupers
Post by: Shackeng on 31 August 2013, 18:29:25

I had to abandon my car in Oxford in about '58 in a thick fog! However, the bus got me home. ??? ??? ???

Title: Re: London Pea Soupers
Post by: MR MISTER on 31 August 2013, 18:32:34

They were very bad in Liverpool too. Here is a picture of our house in the fog in 1959:

































You can hardly make it out, can you? ::)

Title: Re: London Pea Soupers
Post by: Varche on 31 August 2013, 19:10:37

Did they have photoshop in '59?

Title: Re: London Pea Soupers
Post by: cam2502 on 31 August 2013, 19:18:36

Great photos :y. You can just imagine Jack the Ripper skulking around in the shadows just a few years before

Title: Re: London Pea Soupers
Post by: Rods2 on 31 August 2013, 21:16:55

Quote from: STEMO on 31 August 2013, 18:32:34

They were very bad in Liverpool too. Here is a picture of our house in the fog in 1959:

































You can hardly make it out, can you? ::)

I thought that was to hide your house, so the contents were still there after popping out for 2 minutes.  ;) :P ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: London Pea Soupers
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 31 August 2013, 21:18:37

Great find  :y