Ilkeston - A Foggy Day
w/e 12 February 2017
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Kodak DX6490
Following the Clean Air Act of 1956 and the introduction
of "Smoke Control Areas" we haven't had the thick smoke
filled fog (smog) days of years gone by. So when we woke up one
morning last week to a foggy day it was something of an event
and well worth recording. The following images all captured in
and around the town centre show familiar places but in what is
now, an unfamiliar atmosphere.
St Mary's Church.
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Ghostly figures on the Market Place.
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A corner of the Market Place resembled the set for a spooky film
especially when you consider The Scala Cinema, built on the site
of an old graveyard, is reputedly haunted.
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The top of Bath Street couldn't be seen from the Market Place.
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And the Town Hall disappeared into the fog when viewed from the
top of Bath Street.
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Even on Bath Street itself, visibilty was only a little better.
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The Erewash Museum.
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Into the unknown at the exit to the underpass beneath Chalons
Way.
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Derbyshire NHS's Brooklands building (formerly Parkhyrst Maternity
Home) looked like the setting for another horror movie.
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And could this be the Hound of Chaucer Old Park stalking me on
'Illy 'Oleys?
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