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London Pea Soupers
« 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
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Re: London Pea Soupers
« Reply #1 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!
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Re: London Pea Soupers
« Reply #2 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. ??? ??? ???
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Re: London Pea Soupers
« Reply #3 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? ::)
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Re: London Pea Soupers
« Reply #4 on: 31 August 2013, 19:10:37 »
Did they have photoshop in '59?
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Re: London Pea Soupers
« Reply #5 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
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Re: London Pea Soupers
« Reply #6 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
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Re: London Pea Soupers
« Reply #7 on: 31 August 2013, 21:18:37 »
Great find  :y
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