Originally Posted by
THE FLYING COOK
but when you get a peasouper like this for a few days
This ain't peasoup!
We're talking 1950's viz down to 3 or 4 yards, choking green filth, 12,000 people dying from breathing difficulties in a single event, Policemen on point duty wearing masks. I well remember my mother walking along the white painted line in the middle of the road, holding a hankerchief in front of the windscreen so that my father could steer the car. This was in Central London, not out in he countryside! Now, THAT was a pea-souper, named after the colour of the stuff.
And who cleaned it all up? Well, a certain Labour MP called Robert Maxwell introduced the Clean Air Act. Yup, that was him, Cap'n Bob as he became, of Daily Mirror fame (or is that infamy, as in
'infamy, infamy, they've all got it in fa me!')
TOO