Can Anybody Ever Remember The Smog In Sheffield?

[davebrmm]

Iived in the middle of it beside the river .I am 76 and as fit as a fart

[ryder8904]

It sounds like we are all much better off without that crap from all the steel works.

[speedypete0]

depended on what they were smelting as to what colour it was

[alchresearch]

Do people remember the big gas cloud that was regularly released from Orgreave?

 

Found a pic on Geograph: http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/73/69/736980_c2b619c8.jpg

[Carmen.]

I remember it too.

Awful.

Can relate to the tram appearing and disappearing on Handsworth Hill.

 

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I remember Orgreave pit.

Waverley Rd too down there.

I used to go to look at the pig that was housed in a sty down there.

 

---------- Post added 08-07-2014 at 14:06 ----------

 

A great big porker, but in those days I didn't know why it was being kept.

 

---------- Post added 08-07-2014 at 14:13 ----------

 

I remember Orgreave pit.

Waverley cottages down there.

I used to go look at a great big porker that wa housed in a sty down there.

 

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So sorry SF's. Don't know what happened there.

Tried to edit but .............

Edited July 8, 2014 by Carmen.

[RJRB]

I used to walk down to work from Walkley down Burgoyne Rd to Penistone Rd.some mornings it was like walking through a curtain into the smog which laid in the valleys.Like walking into a sulphurous soup.

I don't think that industry was even half to blame.

Every house had a coal fire blazing and smoke out of the chimneys.The Clean Air Actsolved most of the problem.

[Linnet]

Yes in the 50's my mother used to make us hold an handerkerchief over our mouths if we went out. The 25 bus that went from Woodhouse to Beighton always had to have the conductor walking in front down the hill into Beighton as it was so thick the driver couldn't see.

[tzijlstra]

But I thought everything was better in Sheffield in the past?

[RJRB]

But I thought everything was better in Sheffield in the past?

 

Even the smog was better:)

[natjack]

Even the smog was better:)

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