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Vintage Photographs Of London Fog That Inspired Numerous Horror Stories

I suggest you read this post at night, in a dimly lit room, with a candle flickering in your window. Maybe this way you’ll get closer to that eerie atmosphere of the early 20th century London, covered by its famous thick fog.

That same foggy London that has inspired poets and artists throughout time to unleash their monstrous creations onto the city streets. From R.L. Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde to Tim Burton’s Vincent , the thick mist inspired wonder and fear to those who got to witness it first hand.

In the old photographs below (between 1910s to 1950s) you’ll see London covered not only in thick fog but also in a deadly smog, caused by soot particles and poisonous sulfur dioxide produced by the burning of soft coal, that is said to have taken around 12,000 lives. Not taking anything away from that daunting atmosphere already…

(h/t: vintage everyday , boredpanda )

#1 A Lamp Lighter At Work In Finsbury Park, London, 17 October 1935

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#2 Fleet Street, 6 December 1952

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#3 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 24 January 1934

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#4 A Man Lighting His Pipe In Thick Fog Under The Arches At The Temple, London , 23 December 1935

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#5 Central London, January 1936

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#7 The Tower Of London, January 1947

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#8 An Iceman Delivers In The Fog, 1 October 1919

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#9 Liverpool St. Station, 29 January 1959

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#10 Hyde Park Corner, 25 October 1938

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#11 A Woman Leads A Car Through London’s Regent’s Park, 25 October 1938

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#12 Westminster Bridge, 14 January 1955

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#13 A Young Couple During The Great Smog, 1952

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#14 Barges Crowd Together At Hay’s Wharf In Southwark, London, 26th October 1938

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#15 St Pancras Railway Station, 1 July 1907

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#16 Piccadilly Circus, 6 December 1952

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#17 Ludgate Circus, 1 November 1922

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