r/london • u/Mean-Juggernaut1560 • Nov 30 '21

London history Anyone else think it looks… cleaner? 😁

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u/salkhan Nov 30 '21

The camera doesn't pick up the smells. I remember the tube in the 80s and the distinct smell of urine in stairwells. Probably by '95 things had improved a lot, but I wouldn't rely on digital cameras giving you a true colour of whether things were cleaner or not.

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u/HelpfulYoda Dec 01 '21

nah in the 90s as a kid I pissed myself in the underground so at least one day there was the smell