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Chimneys burning coal pre smokless fuel, Bomb fire nights for days after and parrafin heaters after smokless fuel yuk

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my childhood memorys was of fresh cut grass, haymaking was always my favourite time of year,

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there were some very pungent smells when you actually worked inside Blyth's, the Sulphur plant was a bit iffy as was the tin plant

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True but unlike Ashworths those didn't float oer church.;)

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There'd have been a riot if it had a done:rolleyes:

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Just think what todays kids will never have, the pleasure of pricking gas tar bubbles with a spent match. on hot summer days.
Watching gas tar boiler coming round streets, chap with a big iron teapot, pouring hot tar between gaps.

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Pouring the hot tar between the cobbles. Most of the cobbled streetshave now been covered with tarmac

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Yep, you can still see them at the botom of the pot holes that keep appearing around the streets in Woodnook, the patch ups usually last around a couple of months, if they only prepared the pot holes properly by under cutting, drying the collected water out, before using a proper mix of tarmac, the repairs might last a few years, but the council just love wasting money on shoddy work, instead of having a good job done once.
Retlaw

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They turned up across from our house last month ,looked at a small pothole about 6 inches diameter filled it with cold tar mix and tamped it down with a wooden stick. Needless to say it didn't last a week. The whole operation lasted five minutes.