Whiffs and Pongs!

Bridgwater and the cellophane factory! 😱

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

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.

I can remember the Cocoa Mill in Hull, the pleasing aroma was quite widespread but unfortunately closed a few years back.

 

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!

Used to live in Stoneferry.  Alternative smells between the cocoa factory and Cargills fertiliser factory next door!    

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 

 

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.