The Great Stink, Pea-Souper, The Great Smog
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From the horrid smell of human waste that wafted off of the Thames making people actually leave the city of London to the pea-souper, a thick greenish fog that clouded the streets making people sick or the great smog of 1952 that was to blame for thousands of deaths. These are 3 big events in British history that cleaned the city of toxins.
Source:
Smog Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Smog-of-London
https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/the-great-smog-of-1952/
Witness seminar :
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/assets/icbh-witness/bigsmoke.pdf
Pea-soupers Sources:
https://britishfoodhistory.com/2012/03/20/a-pea-souper/
https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/aboutepa/londons-historic-pea-soupers.html
Stink Sources:
https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/great-stink-of-1858/
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