Traffic in smog at night, 1956 2017.36/4 There are colourful flags and

There are colourful flags and banners

Perkins and Company brewery in Park Street

Two men in suits examining geometric paper models at a table by a window

and urban districts are shown as follows:

A decade or so after Reid photographed this exterior

Traffic in smog at night, 1956 2017.36/4 There are colourful flags andTraffic in smog at night. Heavy smog was common in London in the 1950s and this photograph was taken only four years after the Great Smog of 1952, which claimed at least 8,000 lives, half of which in the immediate aftermath of the Smog. Following an investigation, Parliament passed the Clean Air Act of 1956, which marked London's move away from coal burning as the primary heating source to gas, oil and electricity.