Contribution of the Month

Smoke and the Clean Air Act 1956

Images and text provided by Terry Woolliscroft October 2019.

"This occasioned such immense and constant volumes of smoke, as literally to envelope the whole neighbourhood: and it was not infrequent for passengers to mistake their way, and run against each other, during the continuance of this process. The scene which presented itself upon these occasions, has been not inaptly compared to the emissions from Etna and Vesuvius..." from: A Topographical History of Staffordshire: Including Its Agriculture, Mines ... By William Pitt 1817.

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