(via urbanfuck)
London, December 1952:
“On Friday 5 […], a thick yellow smog brought the capital to a standstill for four days and is estimated to have killed more than 4,000 people.
[…] [It] stopped traffic and trains, theatres and cinemas closed because the audience could not see the stage, prize cattle died at Smithfield show at Earl’s Court, and the undertakers ran out of coffins…”
(Bus conductor walking ahead of his vehicle in order to guide it)
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