From the horrid smell of human waste that wafted off of the Thames making people actually leave the city of London to the pea-souper, a thick greenish fog that clouded the streets making people sick or the great smog of 1952 that was to blame for thousands of deaths. These are 3 big events in British history that cleaned the city of toxins. 

Source: 

Smog Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Smog-of-London

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/the-great-smog-of-1952/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/great-smog-of-london-1952-coal-air-pollution-environmental-disaster?loggedin=true&rnd=1749849017715

Witness seminar :

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/assets/icbh-witness/bigsmoke.pdf

Pea-soupers Sources:

https://britishfoodhistory.com/2012/03/20/a-pea-souper/

https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/aboutepa/londons-historic-pea-soupers.html

Stink Sources:

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/great-stink-of-1858/

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/04/story-cities-14-london-great-stink-river-thames-joseph-bazalgette-sewage-system

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