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Post by GentlemanJim on Mar 18, 2013 10:01:25 GMT
A trip down memory lane for some, I'm far to young Kings X and the City Widened Lines
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Post by Zippy on Mar 20, 2013 1:10:13 GMT
Is it just me or was it permanently foggy in the olden days?
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Post by GentlemanJim on Mar 20, 2013 9:33:11 GMT
I remember the thick pea soupers of the late 50's early 60's while being dragged up in Woodford Green, it had a yellow haze about it and would last for days. What I find ironic is that all the steam locos were dispensed along with 99% of coal fired boilers etc. to be replaced with much cleaner petrol/diesel engines (yeah right. At least when there were horse drawn transport there was a useful by-product, not that I remember them of course. My only recollection of steam was seeing rows of dead engines lined up at Stratford while passing on the Tube.
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Post by Nortube on Mar 20, 2013 12:01:30 GMT
Some years ago I was wondering where the fog had disappeared to. There were three types: Fog, mist, and smog. I was never quite sure what the distinction between fog and mist was, but mist seemed to be the stuff you got early some mornings, especially in areas where there were dips in the land. It was often in layers and common where there were fields around. It usually disappeared when the sun came out. Fog was usually the stuff that hung around most of the day. Smog was fog with all the pollution (mostly from coal burning) mixed in with it.
I was brought up on the east coast and fog and foghorns were a daily part of life. Even when I moved to the London suburbs, there were still days of fog (not smog). I think that smog as people knew it disappeared with the clean air act and the conversion to central heating and smokeless fuel. (I wonder how many children these days have actually seen coal?) Any smog these days is usually the pollution haze that's seen after weeks of hot dry weather.
Whilst I've seen a few misty / hazy days, I can't remember the last time I saw any decent fog. It was eerie being in fog, especially thick fog. Everywhere was quiet, as if you were wrapped up in cotton wool. Fog is an excellent sound insulator. it was strange to be walking along and not see anything ten feet or less in front of you, then somebody would suddenly appear. Or, if the fog was thicker, there was a real danger that you'd walk into something, like a lamp post. It was very picturesque whn there was thick fog and the sun was shining.
I blame its disappearance on global warming, it gets the blame for everything else that happens!
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Post by liverpoollou on Mar 20, 2013 12:48:26 GMT
You're right about smog, it had a yellow sulphurous haze and had a smell to it unlike Fog. I rember one Xmas when the Sally Army were playing in our street in East London, we all went outside, couldn't see them for love nor money but we headed toward the sound, they were about 50 feet away under a lampost shrouded in an eerie foggy haze, those were the days..... or were they?
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Post by Nortube on Mar 20, 2013 13:00:29 GMT
I never saw smog, that having disappeared by the time I came to London to work. The clean air act was probably one of the best things any government has actually done.
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