"Stinking" Leeds

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 14 Feb, 2014 9:32 pm

[quotenick="tilly" Hi Leodian Was it the Kardoma that used to roast there own coffee beans and vent the smell down the street . I also remember that smell wonderful. Hi tilly. As far as I am aware they used to roast their own coffee beans at their branches in Leeds (there were more than one). Oddly, though I've never liked the taste of coffee I always loved the aroma when I walked past a branch. It did, as you say, used to drift well away.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Fri 14 Feb, 2014 9:40 pm

On certain days and with an unfavourable wind,the "aroma" from Knostrop can be particularly repugnant.Certainly was about 2 weeks ago.....thought Hunslet smelled like the bad old days you hear of Victorian London and before.God help those not so poor unfortunates choosing to live in the not very cheap,swanky apartments "down that end".They may live to regret the decision in the summer.

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Fri 14 Feb, 2014 10:44 pm

The downstairs gents toilets in George St. down the side of the markets about 40 years ago. God knows how the poor attendent worked there, what a hum.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 15 Feb, 2014 2:13 am

The smell of toffee and /or biscuits from Thorne's at the back of the Vicar Lane bus station.

urban rambler · Post by **urban rambler** » Sat 15 Feb, 2014 2:50 pm

The lovely smell of new mown grass on Sunday morning walk to Roundhay Park from Newtown in summer. (not a lot of green in Newtown other than the Newtown football ground) And there was always a 'beery' smell along Regent Street. Would that have been from Tetley's?

shutthatdoor · Post by **shutthatdoor** » Sat 15 Feb, 2014 3:05 pm

Although I think it closed a number of years ago, on bike rides along the canal past Rodley and towards Greengates/Idle I remember a sauce factory (was it Hammonds?)and although I cannot recall the exact location, as you went past you were assailed by gorgeous smelling spices being cooked or fermented. That always made me fancy a sausage butty, right there, right then.

polo · Post by **polo** » Wed 26 Feb, 2014 5:59 am

roasted chestnuts at xmass

jdbythesea · Post by **jdbythesea** » Wed 26 Feb, 2014 11:01 am

Back in the 80s I used to drive from Dawson's Corner into Bradford each morning past Whitehead's Mill on Dick Lane. The pong (of lanolin I was advised) was horrible and whilst the smell started in Bradford you got a strong whiff of it on our side of the border if the wind was feeling that way out. It always seemed worse on a sunny day somehow.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Wed 26 Feb, 2014 11:32 am

Moorhouses jam factory on Old Lane,Beeston in the 60's and beyond...........that lovely aroma of newly made jam wafting over the area made you want to head for the bread bin.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Wed 26 Feb, 2014 12:14 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: Funny you should mention that today. There's a large Jewish community where I live and yesterday walking down the street I could smell bread baking. It took me straight back to being about six or seven years old and going down Mushroom Street one Christmas Day morning to get bread from Zermansky's bakery. .We must have been almost neighbours then.We lived up Lincoln Road in the Daisys untl about 62/63.Elliss's Jewish bakers was at the end of our street,the bread was asgood as it used to smell.