https://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/haunting-photos-of-the-london-fog?s=mobile
Numbers 4 & 7 are my favourites. It all looks very romantic until you scroll down to the end and read “The Clean Air Act was implemented in 1956, but the fatalities from the Great Smog are said to reach 12,000”
Today we visited the London Canal Museum. It’s a small building on a quiet road very close to madness of Kings Cross. It backs on to the Great Union Canal and is a good way to spend a hour on a grey and gloomy Sunday. The curation is informative and pretty good for kids, there is a life sized horse model to stroke and a real narrow to board.
There is a very big ‘but’…the museum has no a cafe, the only refreshments available is a hot drinks machine! The museum backs on to the Great Union Canal and is housed in an old ice house. A cafe/bar would work perfectly on the balcony viewing the canal or in the cellar where the ice used to be housed, let’s hope someone invests.
There are 41 buildings over 100m in London and over half of them were built in the 21st Century. Amazingly, there are certain views of historic London which can not be blocked. Westminster must be seen from an oak tree on Hampstead Heath and St Pauls must be viewed from a key hole in Richmond. Explains to me why the East has exploded. Not sure I want Boris approving all planning in the capital though.
