Foggy scene on the Strand, London, circa 1946-circa 1959. A City of London traffic policeman outside the Charing Cross Hotel, using outstretched arms...
Foggy Piccadilly partially lit by the light from a fruit seller's stall, 1952. Foggy London scene, 7 December 1952.
Julie Harrison of the Hulton Press tries out a protective mask to combat the effects of London's smog. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6799 -...
Fog and ice on Hampstead Heath. Boys sliding on the ice in the fog at Hampstead Heath ponds. Although the weather was wintry and the fog was thick,...
Head of cattle in the hospital section during the Smithfield Show at Earl's Court Exhibition Centre, London, 8th December 1952. The animal is wearing...
Large numbers of people using the underground system to get around London during a period of heavy smog, which hampered transport on the roads, 8th...
Poison Smog Hits London, The most poisonous smog since the 1952 killer, in which 4,000 people died in London alone, struck London and the Home...
London bus conductor is forced to walk ahead of his vehicle to guide it through the smog, 9th December 1952.
Smog masks have become all the rage in London due to the life threatening levels of air pollution with result in severe smog or 'pea soupers'.
Smog masks have become all the rage in London due to the life threatening levels of air pollution with result in severe smog or 'pea soupers'.
London, England: A young woman in London, wearing smog mask, reads of train delays due to smog conditions.
Smog masks have become all the rage in London due to the life threatening levels of air pollution with result in severe smog or 'pea soupers'.
At journeys end for London commuters were sights like this at Liverpool Street, more a cathedral of smog than steam in the 1950s. Trains wait by the...
London, England: Forewarned is forearmed indeed as this London visitor proves. She came prepared with her smog mask on a London visit. A policeman is...
Blackout Over London, London was today blackened out by the dense fog, and this scene looking towards Hatton Garden, Holborn, from a roof in...
Mr Bill Atkins who lives at the Rise, Hockley, Essex, has invented his own smog mask. He got the idea from a plastic soapbox and he hopes soon to...
Policeman on point duty seen here using flares to guide the traffic during a heavy smog in London. 8th December 1952
London, England- Maureen Caldwell and Sheila Saunders try out new smog masks suggested by doctors to beat London smog- a mixture of smoke and fog...
London, England: Traffic moves slowly, with lights aglow, as smog descends over British capital during daytime hours.
An assistant at the Fuel research Station's Air Pollution section with a filter taken from an air conditioning plant in London. After just one...
Reg Nicol, a policeman in the City of London, wearing a mask as protection against a severe smog which has virtually blacked out the capital....
Foggy conditions in 1952 made travel difficult for London Transport. Here a bus carefully navigates Central Hill in Upper Norwood, South East London....
Technician at the Fuel Research Station operating an apparatus for producing artificial air pollution for experimental purposes, Greenwich, London,...
An assistant at the Fuel Research station's Air Pollution Section shows a filter taken from an air conditioning plant in London after one nights use....
Rooftop deposit gauge installed to measure the amount of solid matter in London's atmosphere at the Fuel Research Station in Greenwich, London,...
Technician working in a laboratory at the Fuel Research Station in Greenwich, London, November 1954. She is determining the amount of poisonous...
Weather London Smog 1953The lights of Piccadilly Circus shine through the fog at 11:40 am and the only other shine is the polish of Sailor Davis...
People, Weather/ Pollution, pic: 12th November 1954, London housewife reads a London borough of Holborn poster, warning of fog, During the early...
Mrs. Eileen Frayne equips her children with surgical gauze outfits, designed to specifications advocated by London physicians. Ministry of Health,...
Pedestrians walk slowly through the haze which almost completely obscures the Monday sun in London on November 18th. Reports from Greenwich...
Two railway workers stand on a bridge overlooking Nine Elms Shed and the Battersea Power Station silhouetted in smog, London, February 13th 1956. ,...
Barge travelling on the River Thames with Battersea Power Station silhouetted in the background smog, London, February 13th 1956.
Scientist at the Fuel Research Station working on a map of pollution after collecting data on the concentration of pollutants in different parts of...
General view of the skyline of central business district on February 19, 2013 in Beijing, China. Large amounts of organic nitrogen compounds were...
General view of Beijing's tallest skyscraper China World Trade Center Tower III and China Central Television Headquarters at central business...
General view of the skyline of central business district on February 19, 2013 in Beijing, China. Large amounts of organic nitrogen compounds were...
General view of the skyline of central business district on February 19, 2013 in Beijing, China. Large amounts of organic nitrogen compounds were...
General view of the skyline of central business district on February 19, 2013 in Beijing, China. Large amounts of organic nitrogen compounds were...
General view of the skyline of central business district on February 19, 2013 in Beijing, China. Large amounts of organic nitrogen compounds were...
General view of the skyline of central business district on February 19, 2013 in Beijing, China. Large amounts of organic nitrogen compounds were...
