Comments on: The Fogs & Smogs Of Old London

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:02:19 +0000

I can’t resist: “The man who is tired of London is tired of life.”

YOURS is a magnificent city, like none other. (grammar might be wrong there but you know
what I mean)

Hey, I grew up in smoky Pittsburgh in the early Fifties, and our moniker was “Hell with the lid
off”. Cars were studiously washed — and then coated with red dust in a minute. Laundry on the line — more red dust. I’m sure it ruined us in a million ways — but I would not change a flake of coal dust of my Pittsburgh childhood. Cities are glorious.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:34:52 +0000

Nether the less Chris, very atmospheric
The Running Footman public house looks slumlike, you can imagine the unsavoury types whom frequented that place, of course I could be wrong.
Some good pics.

By: Chris Webb

Chris Webb — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:12:38 +0000

In many of the photographs the foggy appearance is more noticeable with distant subjects so is real fog or smog rather than an effect caused by some part of the photographic process.

However, the lenses used at the time were very primitive compared to modern ones and in particular did not have any coatings (the orange or purple colour you can see if you look at a lens from an angle) to prevent light scattering as it passed through the surface of the individual pieces of glass. This can also cause haze or flare on photographs.