Pollution Collection

Weather London Smog December 1962 Traffic crawling along at 2mph in the London Smog. It took the photographer who took this image four hours to travel from Bexley, Kent to Fleet Street

Traffic jam at London Heathrow airport at the tunnel leading into airport. June 1976

A 5000 ton chemical storage sphere is symbolic of the millions spent by the firm each year on construction projects as part of the 130 million chlorine complex. ICI Wilton. 7th October 1980

An everyday scene in Risca, Mr John Herbert pictured in Gelli Avenue with the smoke billowing from the Brickhouse Dudley factory chimney

Anglo - French Concorde 002 takes off for its maiden flight from Filton, Bristol. Concorde was manufactured at Filton. Concorde would later go into commercial service from 1976 to 2003

Fog and ice on Hampstead Heath. Boys sliding on the ice in the fog at Hampstead Heath ponds. Although the weather was wintry and the fog was thick

Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. Located within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. September 1960

Lister Drive Power Station, Liverpool. 3rd June 1936

Houses in Stockley Park affected by flies on rubbish brought from London and tipped into the disused clay pits. Londoners would load barges on the canal and come to tip the industrial

British Steel, South Bank Coke Ovens, Lackenby. 13th June 1987

ICIs 312 foot high Nitram plant. The plant which cost 3 million was opened in November 1969. About 500, 000 was spent on cutting noise and pollution

ICI, Billingham. In left foreground can be seen the agricultural division HQ block, and in the background the Tee meanders. 26th April 1977

Crumbling 375 foot high cooling tower at ICI, Wilton. 7th October 1979

1971 EL AL Boeing 747 taking off over roof tops near London Heathrow Airport

Heavy traffic on the M4 coming into London. 28th June 1989

Picture shows the new £52, 000 bridge which is to be opened by the Major of Swansea
Picture shows the new £ 52, 000 bridge which is to be opened by the Major of Swansea today. Wales. Picture taken 26th February 1958

River Derwent pollution 15th June 1989

The great smog blanket - mixture of smoke and fog that is said to be costing £2, 000
The great smog blanket - mixture of smoke and fog that is said to be costing £ 2, 000, 000 a day - thickened last night to what was described as the blackout of London for twenty-five years

Salford feature views. Looking out from Buile Hill park towards the industrial background. 13th October 1970

Avonmouth Severnside in the 1970s - shows just how much things have changed in just one generation. Much of the heavy, polluting industry has now disappeared to be replaced by extensive warehousing

A strange landscape for the youngsters on their way to sunday school. they pass through the ancient graveyard of St Peters Church in Great Bridge, West Midlands (formerly Staffordshire)

Checking out... these Rastrick High School pupils set a shining example by designing lanterns for a performance at Halifaxs historic Piece Hall

British Steels new complex at Redcar, 31st December 1979

Aerial view of Teesside. 16th April 1996

Polluted section of the River Tees, Middlesbrough, 26th July 1993

Steam pours out of the new Enron cooling tower billowing towards Redcar. 30th July 1993

ICI owned Wilton Castle, with the towers of industry in the background. 19th April 1979

General view of cooling towers at ICI, Wilton. 11th August 1977

ICI, Wilton, Greystone Road, South Lackenby Cottages, 13th June 1987

A birds eye view of ICI Billingham - the proposed site for the nuclear dump. 29th August 1984

A general view of ICI Wilton, 24th September 1992

Policeman on point duty seen here using flares to guide the traffic during a heavy smog in London. 8th December 1952

Chimneys of an East End factory poke through the blanket of smog covering London. Circa 1952

Fog Scenes in Battersea Powerstation, 16th November 1949

Smog Wardens in action on the streets of London, 5th January 1956

Scenes of a fog bound London, 5th December 1962

Cooling towers and smoking chimneys pollute the air at a Sheffield industrial site Circa 1947

Congestion in Park Lane at the height of the rush hour. 23rd August 1981

Congestion in Park Lane at the height of the rush hour. 23rd August 1981

Conditions in the fog were a torment for the drivers 1952 of the London transport, but though conditions were sometimes nearly impossible to see, they kept moving, crawling along the pavement edges

Policeman in smog mask December 1962 PC John Finn from Snow Hill Police Station in the London smog of 1962. He is wear a mask to protect him from the harmful effects of the smog

A motor car with headlights full on in the Strand in an attempt to lighten the gloom of the fog which keeps London and the home counties in darkness January 1930

Police using flames at Marble Arch to direct the traffic in London smog 1952

Sellafield Nuclear Power Station formerly Windscale in Cumbria January 1990

Night time picture of Battersea Power Station lit up on the River Thames, London. June 1951

American singer Micael jackson wearing a face mask en route to the Brit Awards ceremony at the Lanseborough Hotel. 17th February 1996

Battersea power station in London, illuminated at night at the time of the Festival of Britain. May 1951

Chimneys rising above the northern industrial town. October 1936

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping