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Many smells take me back, Hawthorn Blossom (pothouse lane) freshly baked bread (me Gran) new mown hay (Billy Proctors farm) what are yours?

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The cotton smell in the mill, and which mum and dad brought home on their clothes. It is a long time since I smelt it but would recognise it instantly - nothing else smells like it.

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Dura-glit (sp?) from when I had to clean my Grandmas brasses , used to get 2 bob

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Carbolic soap, the smell of wet washing....steamy Monday smell, the smell of steam trains, the smell of school, Mansion polish, grandad's pipe tobacco......I could go on and on.

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smell of burnt sand when i worked in the foundry, was that strong only fag i could taste proper was Capstan Full strength:eek:

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Autumn, those cold crisp October/November mornings, mist in the air & all the fallen leaves are damp & crackling, the smell of earth & decay, words can't really express the tang in the air but I'm sure you understand. :)

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Another lingering memory is the smell of sand, pine & sea blowing in off Liverpool bay as we walked the Dogs along Formby beach most Sundays, then travelling home in the car with white eyebrows & chapped lips tasting of salt & of course wet Hounds.

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and don't forget the dog crap.:D

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The worst was the smell that sometimes hung around the bottom of Union Road Church end in the 70's .. terrible!... it's strange but the exact same smell was around Blackwall tunnel London up and till only a few years ago...was it chemicals?

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No but many thought it was, it was actually "Ashworths " on bridge st church virtually next door.;)

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Both spring and autumn have the same effect on me. Can't explain it but know when it's here

As for the Cotton Mill smell I am often to be found in the shop at Helmshore Textile Museum smelling at the tea towels they sell made I think by the Lancashire Towel Company :)

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Cotton definitely - after school (before I got my 'latchkey') I used to sit on mum's box stool at the end of her alley reading comics & waiting for her to finish work at 5.

Cocker Chemicals smell drifting across the fields to Immanuel School, New Lane.

Haymaking - forget the farmer's name (not Billy Proctor - tho' I did know him). The farm accessed from near the top of New Lane by the vicarage. A large family - the McGuires had a house nearby.

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I'll go along with cotton but Velvet weaving had a smell of It's own.I think that was on Victoria St in the 50's.

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When I was a kid walking around New Lane Ossy and the Smell of TCP from Cocker Chemicals also Them smell of newly cut wood in the machine shop

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That was Girone Freres pete, got sacked from yon mid 60s.;)

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Bought a velvet jacket from yon when I first started Pool Refereeing, before I invested in dress suit;)

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Mrs. Hemers shop on the corner 87 Church St. It was a very sweet and lingering smell

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What did she sell Doug:confused:

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The smell I made after my mother forced Sulphur and treacle down me to cure my spots.It didn't work and I had to put myself in solitary confinement for hours.
Sorry to introduce a vulgar note among all these romantic reminisances.
How about the smell of the bluebells in Bluebell Wood in Huncoat?

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I remember brimstone & treacle, it does cure spots & boils, clears a room in 2 seconds when you let one go, great stuff if you need your own space.
Retlaw.

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I remember elderly aunts, who kissed you as a child, and who smelled of Lavender. To this day I am not entirely fond of Lavender!!!!!!!

Sue

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Caravans ! That definitive smell all the rented ones on Caravan parks seem to have usually on wet windswept cliff top sites (I suppose inland sites too). It is not confined to UK either, I've been in Caravans on sites here in Europe & suddenly I'm 6/7 year old in a sodden Rhyl, North Wales about to begin my holidays with the family.

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Hospitals when they actually smelt clean, like a Dettol scent. These days it's like someone's sprayed a poo scented air freshener!

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Tarmac I remember dad holding me over the bubbling drum of it to clear me tubes!:)

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Tubes kikine:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:;)

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I think she meant Bronchial tubes John.......what my gran called Bronicals!

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Oh:rolleyes: Thanks for clearing that up Margaret:D

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Mothballs, firelighters and Lampoil smells at Bob Wilkinsons hardware shop on Nuttall St. in Accrington.

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The smell of freshly ground coffee in Blowers at the bottom of Church st in Accrington....I bet there aren't many of you who remember that shop.

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The fantastic smell of beer brewing, the hops or whatever as you were going into Blackburn or Burnley

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Thankyou Margaret for clearing that one up.:D

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Now theres a thing when did you last see a man in a velvet jacket? You still got it jaysay? :)

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Funny you should mention the smell of freshly ground coffee Margaret. I was thinking the same. I've a vague recollection of the shop you mention. But I remember going in the Co-op with my mum in Manor St in the 1950s, and there was always that smell of freshly ground coffee. I've been drinking the stuff ever since.

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Bernard, I think it smells lovely, but I don't drink much coffee, the ground stuff tasted too bitter to me.

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No, if you look carefully I said I graduated to a Dress suit;) 0 out of 10 for observation:D

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And its dear too Margaret:eek:

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What happened? now ya graduated to a football shirt.:D

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Ya cashy I'm proud of my Blue nd White halfed shirts mate, and the odd Red one too;):hothothot

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I graduated from hot pants to a pleated skirt but still have 'em:D

Would be vintage now and worth a few bob in good condition one owner

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the smell of sadle soap & sulpher dye always take me back to my childhood.

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The trouble with velvet was it only looked new for one day and soon became scruffy, hence the reason I ditched it early doors

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Disinfectant that they used in the boys bogs at school. Brown stuff that turned white when mixed with "water" :alright:

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Only smell i remember from the boys bogs was Dockers.:D

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Oil, at the docks in Newcastle.

I don't know what type of oil it was. It wasn't the diesel you use for speedboats. On the rare occasion I do smell it, it takes me right back to 1971, and boarding the ferry to Denmark. I love the smell.

Another smell I adore is pigs. Could be frrom the same holiday, when I was six, as we stayed on a farm, and I used to play with the baby piglets.

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The smell of chlorine on approach to Accy baths and the smell of the vinegar on your chips afterwards.

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and didn't them chips taste good!

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Most times I could only afford a "bag of bits" - but they tasted just as good, drowning in vinegar.

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After the baths on Saturday we used to go in the Market Hall & get a bag of broken biscuits. Or if it was a morning swim before school a fresh baked Hovis cob (looked like a small loaf) from the bakers near Morts.

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The chippy couldn't have been open, then you wouldn't have gone for the biscuits.

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The old lady didn't open the chippy on a satrday lunch time, though If my memory serves me right she did open in the evening....to catch the drinkers from the John Smiths pub on the corner....'The Junction'.

One not so pleasant smell was the 'botty burps' after being given the spring clean mixture of treacle and sulphur...my wicked brothers used to save their wind up for bedtime.....let off and then waft the blankets so we all got a whiff.......orrible!

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Same here used to love those chips! Went into this chippy just before it closed down on a walk home from a session in town. The place was filthy and the chips didn't taste the same at all!!!! Another memory shattered!!!

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One smell that has stuck with me, was the first time I ever went on holiday to Spain by air, the shear smell of heat when you stepped of the plane at 3 o'clock in the morning, something that's impossible to reproduce over here

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I have a theory, regarding smells, and this thread is too good an oportunity not to air it.

Not a very pleasant subject, so please forgive me.

Poo.

Probably the first smell we experience.

Our own doesn't smell, at least to ourselves, but I have a theory that neither does our mother's, because we got used to it in the womb.

Going into the loo after any other family member....yuk.

A visit to the smallest room, after it's been used by the person that carried us for nine months, ten in my case, equals no horrid stench.

Any comments much appreciated.

Either I'm on to something, or else my mum poops rose petals.

:eek:

:D

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Our own doesn't smell:eek: tha must be one strange bloke Garinda:D:D:D

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To ourselves.

If going to the loo makes you retch, you perhaps need to look at your diet.

;)

:D

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I read somewhere that the sense of smell is the first sense we develop - seems strange, as the foetus doesn't breath.

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No it doesn't really, I have a peg especially after curry:D

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Peg who?

Do I know her?

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As anybody noticed Garinda has just come back from holiday and tone on here as degenerated to the low levels again:D:D:p:p

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Na she's plastic;)

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It takes all sorts.

Not being wooden, means you won't have to worry about splinters, I suppose.

;)

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Thats the Idea G:rolleyes:

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My sense of smell has become a lot sharper since I have been busy 'cleaning my innards' with healthy eating, avoiding pollution and detoxing regularly.

I can smell my own sometimes, especially during a detox - and say to myself
'wow - that is better out than in' :D

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Hoody Blell
Margaret thats going back some years.
You are showing your age.

Retlaw.

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Yes, Retlaw.......I used to push a pramful of coal bricks from Bob Wilkies on Nuttall Street up Riley's Hill......the coal man would deliver up there, but wanted a minimum number of bags to be bought.......and if Ma couldn't afford the minimum number of bags I would trundle down to Bobs for the coal bricks.

I'm not as young as I feel.

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When we were kids and had a cold we had our chests rubbed with Camphorated oil...cor what a pong,,,,,and if you should be unlucky enough to get nits,,,the stuff they put on was awfal....oooh dont know which was worse the smell or the shame:eek::eek:

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Reading that GC reminded me of a mate who always used to say to the barmaids if they had chesty cough, tha wants thi chest rubbin wi Vic.

Oh by the way he was called Victor:D

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suleo was the lotion used for nits.......or derbac.
We had head inspection every Friday night and hair washed with Derbac soap.....none of us ever got nits/head lice

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I con remember them coiul bricks, about 6" x 3" x 2" wi a line raeund middle wher yu cud crack id in 1/2. Burnt to a fine grey ash, seem to remember a name or logo on em, bud carned think wod id wur.

Retlaw.

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Oh, Retlaw, darn it....that'll be another teaser for the old grey cells :)

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see if these names ring any bells....Coalite, Homefire, Ancit, Warmco, Wildfire. Phurnicite.

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Phurnicite were little squashed blobs, gave off a eck of a lot of heat though.
Don't reccognise the names of any of the others, think it was more of a logo with initials.

Retlaw.

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2 things I remember.
1. The smell of smoky bacon in Redmans.
2. Having to hold my breath on the bus when pregnant going past Hollands Pie Factory.

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Strange you should mention the strange effects of pregnancy -
I was physically sick at the smell coming from the chicken barbecue shop that used to be on the corner of Broadway next to Woods tobacco shop.

After that I used to walk well out of my way to avoid it.

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Smells I miss.

Pipe tobacco on football terraces, and cigarettes in pubs.

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going past the STO MIKE coffee factory in Burnley,,,i loved that smell...x

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Smells that used to make me retch.

The stink of brewing hops as you entered Blackburn, as the bus came on to the Boulevard.

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the one smell that made me wretch especially summer time, was the horrible stink that descended on Church "Early/late 70s" everyone nearly (Me Included) used to blame Blythes Chemicals, until i started yon early 77, n discovered it was not them, but bloody "Ashworths" factory next door on Bridge St, was even worse at bait time fer Blythes employees, twas that bad sometimes ya couldn't even stomach yer bait.

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With cashy mentioning work, it reminded me of when I was an happyrentice and we had to refurbish a council house somewhere, in what is now Hyndburn, when we opened the door the stench was overpowering, corners had been used as toilets, not just one all of them upstairs and down. in the end the place was stripped back to bare brick. The plasterers put a roughing on, the morning after when we can back there were red blotches all over the now set plaster, Roaches had crawled up inside the plaster when wet and were crushed when it set, that happened another twice, now that is filth

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When I worked in the operating theatres I used to hate the smell of singed flesh....this happened when the surgeon used diathermy to control bleeding vessels.

Didn't much relish the smell of the mortuary and the PM room either. I always had a little jar of Vicks in my handbag for such times as it was necessary to attend these places.

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My Dad worked there Cashy, later became Pendle Velvets! Thats one of the smells i well remember too, used to run on there to meet him at the Mill when his shift finished! Could smell it on his coat too...which i also used as a blanket in winter!

Other smells i recall is Mums Baking, Plate Jam Tarts or Egg Custards, and a big pan of Cheese n Onion on the go! Baked Bread from Mossleys Bakery on Jacob Street. Tommy Hodsons Toffee Factory on Cotton Street. Smell of Beer on Brewing days on the boulevard in Blackburn as we got off the bus! My Mum having a Twink home Perm on a Friday. Smell of Tar on the roads when we used to pop the Bubbles and get it on our clothes! Candy Floss and Toffee Apples at the Fairground or Seaside. Seafood Stalls on Blackpool Seafront. Printing Inks and Paper when i started work! And Spit Roast Chickens from the Chicken Shop down Accy!


Best Regards - Taggy

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Know how you feel Margaret, was once working at Accy Vic and I accidentally stumbled into the mortuary, wasn't in there long I can tell you

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i remeber my dad taking the frying pan into our yard when he was cooking bacon.He said he wanted to share the smell with those who were not lucky enough to be having a bacon buttie on a sunday morning.

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the smell of shoe polish being melted on our electricfire in the bedroom.Dangerous or what?

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chicory coffe the only kind we could affordback in the fifties

:130:o and fried spam no bacon back then

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Beechy...would that have been Camp Coffee by any chance?

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Was there any other fer the peasants in those days? horrible black crap in a bottle.:D

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My Ma would very infrequently treat herself to a 2oz tin of nescafe(and it would be hidden away in the pantry).......and woe betide if we found it and she found any of us drinking it.
We had to make do with cocoa.

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Been there Beechy, got the T-shirt and it was Camp Coffee, very occasionally it was Sto-Mike. Still love Spam, especially the smoked version, either fried or as a cold sandwich with picallilli (?):D

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Coddy muck.

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Night scented stock.
I grew it every year in the backyard garden I made in Church.
The smell overpowered the the smells that came over the yard wall from next door, where two dogs lived who never went for walkies

Ps I had a lilac tree too but that smell didn't last more than a few weeks. I used to sit under it when in bloom and just breathe in the gorgeous aroma.

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cheese and onion boiling away in milk,dont know the correct culinary name
but it wur a regular treat back in the day

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Excuse me sir I was a peasant in those days and we had freshly ground coffee from Tippings grosser on Blackburn road;)

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Ya Barrie don't forget the piccadilly (sic):D

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always a good smell from Tippings..Maypole..Redmans

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:DLong time since I heard that G:D

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You could actually smell the ground coffee when you walked in these shops beechy:)

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and the sawdust on the floor

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Parrafin smell from the heater that used to be in the outside loo and the shop we used to get it from on tinker brew think it was Birches, sold push bikes and hardware