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Government-sponsored scientific research sought to dispense with the choking fog, to the annoyance of the statues. [45] The Great Smog is the setting of the Doctor Who audio play The Creeping Death [46] and the novel Amorality Tale. [47] The Boris Starling novel Visibility is set in the 1952 smog event. [48]
Piccadilly Circus during the Great Smog of London, 1952. Pea soup fog (also known as a pea souper, black fog or killer fog) is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish or blackish fog caused by air pollution that contains soot particulates and the poisonous gas sulphur dioxide.
The thick, smoky fog enveloped London between 4 and 7 December 1962. [3] [4] Visibility was reduced to a level that lighted objects could only be seen as far as 50 feet away, while the smog caused the cancellation of flights at Heathrow Airport as well as the closure of the airport itself. [4]
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1890 London had 5,728 street accidents, resulting in 144 deaths. [109] London was the site of the world's first traffic lights, installed at the crossroads of Bridge, Great George, and Parliament Streets outside the Houses of Parliament. The 20 ft (6-metre) high column was topped by a large gas lamp, and opened in December 1868. [110]
Coinage of the term "smog" has been attributed to Henry Antoine Des Voeux in his 1905 paper, "Fog and Smoke" for a meeting of the Public Health Congress.The 26 July 1905 edition of the London newspaper Daily Graphic quoted Des Voeux, "He said it required no science to see that there was something produced in great cities which was not found in the country, and that was smoky fog, or what was ...
London & South Western Railway steamship wrecked on a granite reef in fog at full speed, sinking in 8 minutes, at the Casquets, Channel Islands. 112: Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash: 1952 (8 October) Three trains collided in patchy fog in morning rush hour. Death toll second only to Quintinshill rail crash. [105] 112: Dan-Air Flight 1903: 1970 ...
The death of a woman is no longer being treated as suspicious following a post-mortem examination, police said. Her body was found in Gladstone Street in Raunds, Northamptonshire, at 15:45 GMT on ...