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Post by Jim on Feb 3, 2023 9:39:43 GMT
Bring back the smogs of the 60s. 50s I remember smog from t'mill chimneys in the early 60's, could hardly see my hand in front of me. Used to get a bad chest. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 3, 2023 9:43:57 GMT
I remember smog from t'mill chimneys in the early 60's, could hardly see my hand in front of me. Used to get a bad chest. Yes, but the North has always been a filthy and disgusting shithole whereas the London smogs generally occurred in the early 1950s (the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1956). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London |
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Post by on Feb 3, 2023 10:03:55 GMT
So when will the CRT t&c be updated to include "you can not emit smoke fro bthe vessel". And will there be exceptions for historic boats.
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Post by kris on Feb 3, 2023 10:07:31 GMT
So when will the CRT t&c be updated to include "you can not emit smoke fro bthe vessel". And will there be exceptions for historic boats. It’s not so much about legislation. But how long will it be before towpath users are moaning or attacking boaters over the smoke from their chimneys? |
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Post by Jim on Feb 3, 2023 13:16:38 GMT
So when will the CRT t&c be updated to include "you can not emit smoke fro bthe vessel". And will there be exceptions for historic boats. It’s not so much about legislation. But how long will it be before towpath users are moaning or attacking boaters over the smoke from their chimneys? You could have a heart in those circumstances. Warm and beating. Yum. |
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Post by Aloysius on Feb 3, 2023 13:38:57 GMT
I remember smog from t'mill chimneys in the early 60's, could hardly see my hand in front of me. Used to get a bad chest. Yes, but the North has always been a filthy and disgusting shithole whereas the London smogs generally occurred in the early 1950s (the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1956). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_LondonMore inevitable bollocks. I suppose it's largely true that the more heavily industrialised regions were also more polluted - after all it wasn't called the 'Black Country' for nothing - but, since coal was used by everyone who could pay for it, and not just in the winter, inevitably any level of urbanisation wouldn't have produced the best environment. I wonder how much smoke was produced by Battersea power station when it was in use? I should think quite a lot. The smog was only the precipitating event. After all, the politicians had to be stunk out of Westminster before anybody thought to do something about the open sewer the Thames had long been. |
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Post by Jim on Feb 3, 2023 13:48:02 GMT
One of the local Mill owners, Gordon Harvey, who ,with Fothergill, built the mills by the canal on the way to the summit of the Rochdale, was the first to recycle the boiler smoke back through the boiler fire to clean it up. He proposed a clean air act just before WW1, got scuppered by the war. The things we have to do to clean up after dirty southerners.
Houses still extant by the Summit pound were built of the first breeze blocks, made from ash from the mill fires, another of Gordon's ideas.
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