It was a tense atmosphere

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If you occasionally watch films that are thrillers based in London you will be familiar with the sight of fog drifting around the streets just before the murderer strikes. People may be forgiven for thinking London is always swathed in fog but this is no longer the case, we have a little fog sometimes and mist in the morning but it is a damp country so that is not surprising. However I can remember when London really did suffer with fog. It was called 'smog' because it was a mixture of smoke and fog as a result of coal burning mainly I think. This fog was murderous in itself and elderly people died when the smog fell. I was schoolgirl then and we had to walk to school (no cars to speak of) whatever the weather. We had big knitted scarves which we wrapped around our faces so that we breathed in a kind of filtered air. It was so thick that we could not tell if we were walking on the pavement or the road. Happily there was a clean air act and fuel was cleaned up and my children have never experienced a smog. photo: courtesy Dreamtime