Pea soup fog
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Pea soup fog is a very thick and often greenish-yellow fog caused by air pollution that contains tarry soot particulates and the poisonous gas sulphur dioxide. This very thick smog occurs in cities an
Piccadilly Circus during the Great Smog of London, 1952
Great Smog of London
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The Great Smog was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected air
Pea soup fog
…see the kerb and operate the steering through the side window while the driver operated the pedals. The most lethal incidence of this smog in London occurred in 1952 and resulted in the Clean Air Act 1956 and Clean Air Act 1968, both now repealed and consolidated into the Clean Air Act 1993, which were effective in…
Nelson's Column during the Great Smog
Battersea Power Station in 1938
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