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From: "Irene" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] RE: THE Smog!!!
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:07:54 +1000
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I remember it too I lived in Morden, Surrey end of the Northern line, I was
working with my mum around 1960 and can remember walking home from the Tube
station since we figured it was quicker than the bus. Remember also seeing
on more than one occasion in the morning the fence around the roundabout at
the bottom of St Heliers Ave that someone had run into in the fog instead of
going around


Regards Irene
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Sparkes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Lon] RE: THE Smog!!!


> Hi
>
> I remember the smog well.
>
> On my first day at work in 1955 the smog was so thick that my boss offered
> to drive me home as the buses were not running.
>
> I had to hang out of the window and watch out for the kerb so he didn't
> drive up onto the pavement, trouble was, I couldn't see the kerb.
>
> I did arrive home eventually but the journey took so long my parents were
> very worried about me as I was disabled and they knew I couldn't walk home
> and they didn't know where I was.
>
> This was in Ilford.
>
> jackie
>


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