Re: -fog and continent

On 6 Oct, 18:07, "Liz Owen" <l.o...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you to all those who took the trouble to reply;  I think the answer to
the problem may well be lost in the mists (sorry!) of time

Liz Owen

Further to Philip's earlier reply, Liz, I've found a reference to the
date of The Times article in 1957 at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sea_observer/3114613078/
Seems it's 22nd Oct 1957.

However, another snippet elsewhere says: "Fog thickens in the Channel
- Continent cut off" was a phrase "often used in the Shipping Forecast
in the 1930s". I can imagine radio announcers using it then - without
the slightest notion of irony - when London was the heart of the
Empire and centre of the Universe, the boat train was THE way to
travel and only those of a certain class (and mindset) would regularly
make the trip across.

- Tom.
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