Pea soupers

Pea-soupers are fogs that are so thick that seeing through them is difficult even when looking a couple of yards ahead.

A pea-souper came down on London in 1952. 12 thousand people of london   died over a course of 4 days. The pea-soupers were cause by a fogs from the River thames and smoke from coal fires. London had suffered these pea-soupers for centuries. In 1306 Kind Edwards I banned  coal fires to put an end to the pea-spoupers.




Links:

http://listverse.com/2009/08/29/top-10-creepy-aspects-of-victorian-life/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2243732/Pea-souper-killed-12-000-So-black-screen-cinemas-So-suffocatingly-lethal-ran-coffins-How-Great-Smog-choked-London-60-years-ago-week.html