In this fascinating video Museum of London’s Senior Curator of Contemporary History talks about the Great Smog of 1952. If you watched ‘The Crown’ on Netflix – this provides some interesting background to the episode where this was central to the plot.
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I’m just old enough to remember it. I remember trying to feel my way along the streets on my way home from school. It was like being blind, and very scary.
I was just 5 years old and with my Mum. I remember we walked into the side of a double-decker bus which was stopped, but it had all its lights on, inside & out and we still hadn’t seen it! Moved to the West Country a few years later for my Dad’s health, as he had contracted bronchitis in the war and wouldn’t have lasted another year in the London air.