The thick fog was usually a mix of pollution from coal burned to heat homes and pollution from factories. These came together to create a toxic mix of sulphur dioxide and combustion particles.
During a
week of smog in 1873 killed over 700 people in London. However, the
largest air pollution disaster in Britain was the Great London Smog of
December 1952 which killed approximately 4,000 people.
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| Smoke pollution, 19th century |
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| Cartoon commenting on the pollution of the Thames, 1858 |
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| London, 1930s, image from The Guardian Archives |
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