Childhood smells

Arry Awk · Post by **Arry Awk** » Fri 13 Nov, 2009 5:14 pm

carith wrote: Tykette wrote:Not childhood, but from the 1970s when I first worked on Kirkstall Road - there was often a really terrible smell - I think it was from a tanning factory.Think this could have been milford mill on milford street off Kirkstall road the smell once whiffed is never forgotten. Deffo Paul's Leather tannery at Joppa works! I lived in the Rosebanks ('37 to '47) and the aroma was sick-making if the wind blew from the south! There was also Hess's Oil refinery nextdoor and Yorkshire Chemicals further down towards town.Nearly as bad as the 'Old Spice' and 'Hai Karate' thatwell-meaning aunties would give me for Christmas!

oldleedsman · Post by **oldleedsman** » Fri 13 Nov, 2009 6:40 pm

The smell of chlorine at Kirkstall Road baths; watching workmen laying tarmac roads; the toilets at our school!; Bazooka Joe bubblegum; smelling salts that my granny had in her handbag; lavender bags; christmas puddings being steamed for hours and hours.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Fri 13 Nov, 2009 7:33 pm

Leeds City Station had an aroma of coal smoke when there were still a few steam engines around,I can also vaguely remember a slight hazeyness in the air.I suppose the smoke never really cleared.Also a rubbery smell on the old rear-entry Leeds buses.Upstairs would have been a fug of cigarette smoke.

Jak · Post by **Jak** » Fri 13 Nov, 2009 9:00 pm

I remember the smell from the pickle factory at the bottom of torrie road and stoak @doltons on york road .

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Fri 13 Nov, 2009 9:55 pm

Jak wrote: I remember the smell from the pickle factory at the bottom of torrie road and stoak @doltons on york road . The smell of the "middins" of the back to back houses lower down Armley road,after Gloucester Terrace on a hot summers day,fair made you want to puke! Ugh! The pong that issued from the destructors at the bottom of Armley Rd when they were burning something horrible!

Leeds-lad · Post by **Leeds-lad** » Fri 13 Nov, 2009 10:58 pm

Not when I was a kid but when I worked on the 55 Bruntcliffe out of Sov the smell from the dripping factory at the bottom of Wide Lane Morley used to almost make you wretch.As Chris M said Phillips Yeast factory on Armley Rd when I went to Clock School & Cassy.Crayons in classroomAnd wasn't there always a kid in class who stunk of Pee or Sh*t

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 12:05 am

Leeds-lad wrote: Not when I was a kid but when I worked on the 55 Bruntcliffe out of Sov the smell from the dripping factory at the bottom of Wide Lane Morley used to almost make you wretch.As Chris M said Phillips Yeast factory on Armley Rd when I went to Clock School & Cassy.Crayons in classroomAnd wasn't there always a kid in class who stunk of Pee or Sh*t Both sexes stunk, some more than others!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 12:11 am

stevief wrote: Leeds City Station had an aroma of coal smoke when there were still a few steam engines around,I can also vaguely remember a slight hazeyness in the air.I suppose the smoke never really cleared. Yes it's the smell of steam locomotives that's really evocative, smoke, hot oil, steam all combined. On the rare occasions I smell it these days, it brings back afternoons of waiting on the platforms at Leeds City for the Waverley or Thames-Clyde Express, there used to be two of each on an afternoon the up ones and down ones and they reversed at Leeds, with a new loco from Holbeck to take them out.

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 12:15 am

Trojan wrote: stevief wrote: Leeds City Station had an aroma of coal smoke when there were still a few steam engines around,I can also vaguely remember a slight hazeyness in the air.I suppose the smoke never really cleared. Yes it's the smell of steam locomotives that's really evocative, smoke, hot oil, steam all combined. On the rare occasions I smell it these days, it brings back afternoons of waiting on the platforms at Leeds City for the Waverley or Thames-Clyde Express, there used to be two of each on an afternoon the up ones and down ones and they reversed at Leeds, with a new loco from Holbeck to take them out. Yes! That smell does take you back! Reminds me of the long hours I stood on Holbeck High Level trainspotting!

Post by **cnosni** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 1:36 am

stutterdog wrote: Trojan wrote: stevief wrote: Leeds City Station had an aroma of coal smoke when there were still a few steam engines around,I can also vaguely remember a slight hazeyness in the air.I suppose the smoke never really cleared. Yes it's the smell of steam locomotives that's really evocative, smoke, hot oil, steam all combined. On the rare occasions I smell it these days, it brings back afternoons of waiting on the platforms at Leeds City for the Waverley or Thames-Clyde Express, there used to be two of each on an afternoon the up ones and down ones and they reversed at Leeds, with a new loco from Holbeck to take them out. Yes! That smell does take you back! Reminds me of the long hours I stood on Holbeck High Level trainspotting! how is mrs Stutterdog?Ive just dropped a big faux pas on another thread mixing you up with Hannibal.Im off to bed,not sure who with though by the sound of things!!i think Demogate has taken its toll on me.