Whiffs and Pongs!
Amusing little report on BBC website about the different odours that strike in lots of places around UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47088784
Its something we notice when touring around, especially if it’s somewhere we haven’t visited before. I can recall pulling MH up in Carlisle, close to centre, and when we stepped out, the place had a lovely sweet aroma, that we couldn’t place at first........then penny dropped, coconut. It was the Biscuit Factory, on Nice day. Locally, in past times Sheffield always had a strong odour of hops from Wards Brewery, and a certain area of another town had a salty, spicy tang. That was the big peanut and crisp production factory!
This time of year is always ripe when passing through rural areas as well, and we had to rapidly close all windows on MH driving through Dales, it was muck spreading day, and I don’t think it was animal based, more like human sewage, absolutely foul....
Any other whiffy places spring to mind, nice or noxious?😁
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Bridgwater and the cellophane factory! 😱
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When we first moved to MK we used to get the smell of the brick works all around us in Bedfordshire and North Buckinghamshire. They are now long gone so fortunately no pong!
David
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I grew up in Blackpool and can well remember the familiar aromas of the area around Layton.
There was the Symbol Biscuit Factory at the corner of Devonshire Road and Mansfield Road: You always knew what they were making.
Then there was the Catterall & Swarbrick Brewery on Talbot Road which always had the smell of hops wafting on the breeze.
Not quite so pleasant was the abattoir, just off Talbot Road.
Back up to today, I love the aroma of the chocolate from the factory just down the road when staying at Lady Margaret's Park.
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I remember the brewing smells in Burton on Trent and also Edinburgh, not unpleasant but quite strong as they wafted over everywhere.
In Birmingham where we had family the chemical works and the smell of coal tar and sulphur hung in the air. It was supposed to clear your lungs!
Locally we have slurry, it's sprayed onto a nearby field whilst the cows are still inside. It's very strong and when the wind's in the wrong direction gets into our house, hair and clothes!
Oh and also the fertiliser as the potatoes go in, country smells!
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Used to live in Stoneferry. Alternative smells between the cocoa factory and Cargills fertiliser factory next door!
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Whenever we walk through Southwold we have the dual smells of Adnams Brewery and the Brine of the Sea.
Dislike the smell from the Chocolate factory that pervades the Chirk CAMC site
If the wind is in the wrong direction we get the smells coming from the Shell Refinery at Stanlow near the Chester site.
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We have a large bakery, a coffee factory and a chocolate factory, the smells that waft around the town can range from being quite pleasant to awful if they have burnt the coffee when roasting
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Up until a few years back there was the Paynes Poppet factory in Purely near Croydon. a very pleasant experience was to be had driving past with the windows open.
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Yes I remember the Bridgwater pong when we lived in Somerset but it all closed down about 14 years ago and took a long time to clear all the chemical treatment baths on site, We lived on the Polden hills and when we could smell the cellophane factory at home we knew bad weather was on its way, also had a dog dry food factory near J23 of the M5 also had quite a pong.
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The area smells much sweeter these days, RK.👍🏻
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Peterborough used to have the smell from the sugar beet factory years ago which you either loved or hated - I hated it. It made me feel sick. We also had the smell from the brick chimneys but that has all gone now.
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The black liquid slurry for this field was delivered by tanker from a commercial food digester. Hope we don't come across such a stomach churning smell again.
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Oh gosh yes, that brings back childhood memories! Dad was from York so as youngsters we were frequent visitors. I can recall Rowntree, Terry’s, the whole place used to have a lovely sweet smell. I bet Bournville was the same.
OH went to Uni in Middlesbrough, lived not far away. The smell from ICI invaded every nook and cranny. Rubbery and metallic.....
I like the fiction of Patrick O’Brian, he frequently mentions the “stink from the land” which told the returning sailors they were close to shore. Actually had occasion to recall this in real life after a visit to Isles of Scilly. The air was so clean there, it was strange getting back to the mainland, you could smell all sorts of stuff your nose doesn’t normally pick up.
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I can remember the sweet smells from the Rowntree factory, my grandparents lived in New Earswick and we often visited the factory.
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If you want the sugarbeet smell at Newark try staying at Smeaton Lakes next door when the factory is in full production. YUK !!
I used to work in Balderton and you can still smell it down there.
Rather strangely though I love the smell of freshly slurried fields. Reminds me of growing up with a pig farm at one end of the road and a cattle farm at the other.
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I can still remember the smell of linoleum being manufactured as we drove through Kirkcaldy, in Fife, as we made our way to our Grandparents in Leven.
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Rather eerily, we visit Rievaulx Abbey quite often, and we always swear we can still smell the tanning troughs that are part of the Abbey complex...........🤔
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Years ago we had a bonemeal factory nearby and up wind of us. Fortunately it is now gone.
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I remember driving thru Hull around the Beverley road area past the Needlers factory-Humbugs smell, then a little further on hitting the tanners on air street🤢. It’s odd the way foul smells disperse nice ones. . .& hang around longer☹️
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Oh gosh WN, that would be my ultimate nightmare. 😱
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And I will never forget the smell from Seaton's oil refinery on Bankside at 2 o'clock in the morning, when as a young PC, I was plodding the beat - it was so strong it used to give me chronic indigestion! Both Seaton's and PCs on the beat are long gone
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Don’t even mention the fish dock back in the day, you didn’t need to live in Hull to know which way the wind was blowing😂😂😂
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Just outside Plancoet, France, and nearby large chicken sheds. These had extractor fans, and it was eye watering when the wind was in the wrong direction.
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