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the smell of emeric eccles chemist shop when buying scotts emulsion.YUK!

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Was that for drinking or rubbing?

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It was for drinking and it was 'orrible.......nasty nasty stuff.

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When we were engaged my mother in law to be used to dose my fiance with Liqufruta for a cold.
http://www.expresschemist.co.uk/pics...icine_75ml.jpg

In those days it wasn't custom to use garlic, so I recall it smelt foul on his breath.
What a passion killer that was.

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[quote=Margaret Pilkington;840198]It was for drinking and it was 'orrible.......nasty nasty stuff.[/quot

It sounds awful. What was it for?

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Well it was supposed to keep the colds away during the winter.....it had cod liver oil in it......and it tasted vile.
I used to hide when my mother was doling out this stuff, which incidentally my mother could not afford, but my Grandma used to buy it for us all to be dosed with.

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What years did you live around there?

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Scorched horses hooves from the blacksmith down Eagle (?) St...smell of fish and chips of an evening from the lady's shop opposite the Baths

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I remember the chippy across from the baths,and the smell. Funny how things stay with you.

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I remember the smell and taste of the chlorine from Accy baths and the chippy smells. The most obvious smell on a visit to the market was the smell of fish from the fish market. Also sulphur smells at Blythes Chemicals and Broad Oak and the River Stink used to be very strong in that area.

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Always used to get a "Tanners" worth of chips when i came out of the baths with my bloodshot eyes & wrinkled fingers!!

Best Regards - Taggy

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My first job at 15 years old was as a wood turner, less than half mile from yhe cis building in m/c, and every morning i had to walk past the bone works. Its a smell that i will never forget, and words can never discribe it.
If anyone knows the area it was near Phillips rubbers (stick-a-soles) so calm down. Henry Wallworks and Duckhams Oils.

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The smell of Woolworths on Blackburn Road . Wherever you went all Woolworths seem to have the same smell .

Same with the Co-ops .

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Co-ops had that ground coffee smell

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Nice smell ground coffee .

Then there's the smell of leather at the cloggers .

That Continental bakers that used to be near the bottom of Fielding Lane used to give off that lovely smell of freshly baked bread .

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The smell of Pears soap and Wrights Coal tar soap my mum used to buy once a year, to take on holiday

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I still use it .:)

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Not when you were staggering home full of ales JCB:D

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Ain't seen that for years

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I buy it at Asda .

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In the late 19 fourties we lived top of devonshire street and along with westwood street we had to suffer a awful smell from the metcalfes fertilzer plant I am told they are now based in oswaldtwisle hope the stink is not as bad as ours was

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They sell it in Sainsbury's still - which reminds me of the smell of smoke from coal fires as walking up from town in the winter. Coal fires are banned these days, aren't they?:dflam:

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Ya for about 40 years now mate:D

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Now that you mention it, I do remember the smell of the cloggers ... used to get my clogs at the shop on Barnes St.

And the River Stink:eek:

Not too many of us left that wore clogs ... we are like the USMC: "The Few and the Proud.":alright: