 Check out the City of Shadows - A Gothic Tour of Victorian London. Lots of pictures, text-excerpts and links.
"To artists the fog is London's best friend. Not the black fog, but the other. For there are two distinct London fogs-the fog that chokes and blinds, and the fog that shrouds. The fog that enters into every corner of the house and coats all the metal work with a dark slime, and sets us coughing and rubbing our eyes-for that there is nothing to say. It brings with it too much dirt, too much unhealthiness, for any kind of welcome to be possible. "Hell is a city much like London," I quoted to myself in one of the worst of such fogs, as I groped by the railings of the Park in the Bayswater Road."
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