UK BREAKS RECORD FOR NO COAL USE

[Rolluplostinspace]

Blackburn

Burnley

There's quite a list if you delve a bit.

I don't think they're particularly industrial and smoggy, that was where the textile industry once was, but not anymore.

It stretched from coast to coast. More cotton in the west more wool in the east. Plus heavy engineering mining chemicals steel production iron works bleach works ship building trains paper mills and on and on .... it was a shit place to breath but lots of work. A week at the seaside in those days was a shock to your lungs and bloodstream and got you going again.

[Cannydc]

Blackburn

[Cannydc]

And Burnley

[Ray of Sunshine]

I didn't know Burnley was like that TBH but that's never Burnley today.

My point was that Middlesbrough and Goole still have the bit chimneys spewing smoke.

[Rolluplostinspace]

The smoke was that bad washing couldn't be put out on the line if the wind was blowing in your direction.
The smoke was that bad that certain weather conditions wouldn't allow the smoke to travel elsewhere and dissipate so we had the pea souper fogs to walk to school in often not being able to see more than a few feet away.
The air today is much cleaner.

[Cannydc]

I didn't know Burnley was like that TBH but that's never Burnley today.

My point was that Middlesbrough and Goole still have the bit chimneys spewing smoke.

The Clean Air Act (1956) stopped a lot of it.

Followed up by the 1993 version banning;

1. Prohibition of dark smoke from chimneys.

2. Prohibition of dark smoke from industrial or trade premises.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/11/contents

[McAz]

I didn't know Burnley was like that TBH but that's never Burnley today.

My point was that Middlesbrough and Goole still have the bit chimneys spewing smoke.

Middlesbrough doesn't.