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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 12:53 pm

Remember these day SMOG. Many times in the sixties I had a string of Bus's following me from Chiswick to Hounslow bus depot on my AJS 350 once when going home after Bus delivery I got lost in the murk got to the end of Bridge road Hounslow turned right onto Worton road only to find myself in a Churchyard had to push the bike backwards onto the road as the yard was very narrow did get home in the end using my left foot dragging along the kerbs to home ..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 12:54 pm, in reply to "Remember "

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by laverdabru <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=laverdabru' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 1:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember "

My aunt used to live in London then. There was a recent tv prog on one of the documentary channels about the health problems/deaths caused by the pollution there during that time.
Happy days - not.
Great picture, by the way.

Bru

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Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 1:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember "

Whenever I've visited someone in London and seen the old coal fireplaces in their house, and imagined a million such heating all the houses before they were converted to gas or electric. ... Just wow!

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 2:07 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember "

A lot of Londoners died during the smog period. Pretty clean there now but i will never enter the City as there is too many other dangers with some people. I like Londons new name of London-istan though. It suits the people that now rule it.
Exmouth is still without its istan ending for now but building up to it slowly. I can now smell a bit of cannabis in the air at night from some of the rented houses nearby

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Well born and bred in London yes the smogs of the 50s 60s was bad I once went to the local pub to meet a friend it was on a junction of three roads all at different angles .. So I'm walking to the pub got to the junction could hear the noise from the pub but couldn't see it I was in the middle of the read but lost my bearings so shouted out and got a reply of Over there....didn't get home till two in the morning when the Smog lifted..
And yes had handkerchiefs tied over mouth and nose..My brother couldn't go out in those conditions as he had a collapsed lung due to TB which I had and sister during the war..
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Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by shiner <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=shiner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 19, 2025, 12:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember "

during this time I won a prize trip to the Ralf Reader London gang show at my local scouts troop this was by train on return to farnham my birth town the it was a real pea souper the scout leader who organozed the trip & collected us in his car he asked me as a local who recognized where we were to direct him out of the station to the road easy peasy of course so slowly as we left I confidently guided him towards the main road it was difficult to see but as a local this was no problem suddenly right in front of us loomed out of the fog a hugepair of iron buffers thinkinig everybthing was ok I had directed him confidently into the shunting yard among the rails and coal merchants stock never heard the last of that

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 4:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember "

I remember riding in the thick fogs in the 60's and other drivesr following behind my bike too close as they new I could see ahead better than them. Very scary.

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 7:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember "

I know that none of this is good for you, but I love the smell of smoke from coal fires.

Same with the smell of traction engines, love it.

Well I guess we all have some perversions

Who needs a signature anyway......

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Me too Andy.

The oldest rocker in town!

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Posted by Hants Ian <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Hants+Ian' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 3:12 pm, in reply to "Remember "

When smog was so thick that one couldn't see your hand in front of face my sister and me were tying to get to our local Primary school. Our neighbour who was blind took us to school as he was going to get some ciggies from the newsagents near to the school.

The light at the end of the tunnel maybe an oncoming train

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Posted by pete__s <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=pete__s' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2025, 10:45 pm, in reply to "Remember "

My Mum and Dad cut short their 4 day honeymoon in London in November 1952 because of the smog.

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Posted by nek <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=nek' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 17, 2025, 11:25 am, in reply to "Re: Remember "

I was out in the worst of that 52 smog, aged 5 my chest has never recovered.

Can I get compo from that nice Mr Khan?

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