Gas cloud enveloped Britain, killing thousands.

[Bill Sikes]

Well! What we find in the meedja!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6276291.stm



"When a killer cloud hit Britain, By Dan Walker, BBC Two's Timewatch

The eruption of Laki was one of the biggest in recorded history

Laki erupts

A little over 200 years ago, the eruption of a volcano in Iceland sent a huge toxic cloud across Western Europe. It was the greatest natural disaster to hit modern Britain, killing many thousands - but it has been almost forgotten by history.

"Such multitudes are indisposed by fevers in this country that farmers have difficulty gathering their harvest, the labourers having been almost every day carried out of the field incapable of work and many die."

So wrote Bedfordshire poet William Cooper in the summer of 1783."



It could happen again one day....

[Galbally]

Magenta flame;521834 wrote: :-3 It was Galbally....honest:yh_whistl


But I don't live in Iceland, I live in Ireland, and my farts are not poisonous! :wah:

Cool thread though, interesting isn't it?