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Remember those fogs well. My mate and me used to go out with torches to guide the lost cars, it made up our pocket money.
When I was young, a Co-op Milkman told me that horses pulling milk carts, knew their own way back to the depot when the round was finished. I don't know whether he was joking, but could be useful in a fog.Co-op milk
When I was young, a Co-op Milkman told me that horses pulling milk carts, knew their own way back to the depot when the round was finished. I don't know whether he was joking, but could be useful in a fog.
Pete, I certainly do remember those pea soupers! As a child in Handsworth I can remember a bus driver getting lost and turning off the Soho Road into Soho Avenue by mistake, and the drivers used to have to walk in front of the buses to guide the drivers.
Then when I was older and working in the city centre in the 60s, I remember the fog came down one afternoon, getting worse by the minute, so I rang my sister and told her we ought to start making our way home to Quinton and not wait until 5.30. We got a No.9 from Colmore Row and it took about half an hour to get to the end of Broad Street. We got off the bus and started walking. Took us about 2 hours or more to make it back to Hagley Road West in Quinton. We literally couldn't see a hand in front of us, and when crossing the road had to shout to each other to find our way to the other side. It was deathly quiet and no cars or buses passed us all the way home. I had on a beige coat which I had just had cleaned and by the time I got home it was black with the smog. A girl I worked with used to have Asthma and she always wore a mask across her face when the fog came.
Judy
Dave 89 forgot to say Pete was on the milk when he first left school and he said those horses sure knew their way home and where to stop when the boss went in for a cuppa and afters. [cakes or biscuites I presume]. Jean.