How the Great London Smog of 1952 killed thousands - Witness History, BBC World Service
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Seventy years ago, thick polluted smog descended on London bringing the city to a standstill and leading to the deaths of an estimated 4,000 people.
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The Great Smog of London lasted for four days. In response the government passed the Clean Air Act of 1956 to reduce the use of smoky fuels such as coal.
Witness History spoke to Dr Brian Commins, who worked for the Medical Research Council's Air Pollution Unit set up at St. Bartholomew's hospital in London in the 1950s.
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I was 5yrs old but remember this so well. Never forgotten crossing the road with my mum and not seeing the bus headlights until it was almost on us. Scary stuff…..
The Crown did an excellent job portraying this in one of their early episodes. Yeah some of it was fabricated (Churchill's secretary never existed), but it seemed very realistic. If I remember right, they actually reenacted a few scenes from this very newsreel footage for it!
1950s London = 2020s Delhi
@smurugan12
7 ай бұрын
70 years behind
I’m hear after watching The Crown
Pov you just started watching the crown
Lucky it's not like this now (although if you believe sadiq you'd think it is) how would you find all the stabbing victims when you can't see through the smog.
Smart doctor
Southport's always sending airplanes from the army base over the northwest when the sky is too blue & within 2 hours its all grey. They are doing it again soon.
Not as serious but a very similar pollution event happened in Donora, Pennsylvania in 1948.
Actually, old movies of an even older Victorian Era, showed the frequent, but at the time typical London Fog. At the time it was portrayed as a phenomenon of nature. Now i doubt that. But then, why isn't it mention here, if it wasn't ???
Air Pollution means to say Clean Energy Solutions.
Wow
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Smokers had their own little chimney exhaling even more noxious pollution..
Crown season 1
India pakistan be like : every year China : we defeated smog without even trying
@diogorodrigues747
4 ай бұрын
"China : we defeated smog without even trying" - yeah, because the CCP basically decided to put their industries in the outskirts of major cities instead of inside them, which has improved the air in the big political and financial centres in the detriment of other areas (it's to be said that the situation isn't good though, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, etc. are still very polluted cities). Most of China is incredibily polluted and you can prove that by looking at data for air pollution measured via neutral estimates.
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@TheFormula313
7 ай бұрын
👍
☪️🇿🇦🎶🇮🇳🌎🎼
In Delhi there's this kind of pollution without the industrialisation 🥴
Capitalism 🤷
@joelashdod7712
7 сағат бұрын
Capitalism? , was Chernobyl also caused by capitalism?
You can tell by the comments here that it's now "Londonistan".
@cecilefox9136
6 сағат бұрын
😂