"Stinking" Leeds

[dogduke]

Geordie-exile wrote: dogduke wrote: 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. Very close yes dogduke; on the Lincoln Green estate.I don't remember Elliss's though. I do remember the little paper shop behind Lincoln Towers. Was the lady that served called Betty? /vague From Leodis - the shop which was Russells in my day,changed hands a couple oftimes and I think an Asian chap had it up to demolition201357_174489Also from Leodis the said Ellis bakery,looks pretty grim but I don't remember in black and white thank goodness200316_79070682

[biofichompinc]

j.c.d. wrote: somme1916 wrote: 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. I lived near Moorhouses and one day all Beeston smelt of Strawberry Jam and the next week might be the aroma of Marmalade. some of the lads who worked in the factory used to come in to Cross Flatts club for a drink after finishing their shift and one old lad nicknamed "Moorhouse Bill" never used to bother going home to change and would stand at the Bar with his white boiler suit splattered with whatever flavour they had been using that day, his face and hands too. I refer the honourable gentlemen to the answer I gave some moments ago. OK, a couple of years then......Searched the site using the argument 'jam' and this particular thread did not appear in the results. Safe to assume then that my own particular memory has not been included here already. Growing up in Beeston was particularly memorable on account of the wonderful smells emanating from Moorhouse's jam factory on Old Lane. Raspberry and strawberry seemed to be the most regular occurrence but I can't think of one flavour which didn't smell great. Marmalade and lemon cheese were obviously easily identifiable, and also were very pleasant. In the summer of 1968 I got a holiday job at the factory and found that the smell was just as good inside. This was a contradiction to the previous summer when I had got holiday work at the CWS bakery at the bottom of Lowfields Road. The smell of freshly baked bread from outside the bakery was great, but was not the same inside.One other memory of walking up to Moorhouse's for a very early morning start was hearing televisions tuned in to live transmission of the Olympic Games from Mexico City. See more at: http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messag ... Message=75

[jonleeds]

Its not really Leeds but one of the loveliest aromas I can remember - my mouth is watering at the thought of it, was outside the Seabrook Crisps factory near Girlington, Bradford. I'd pulled up outside Seabrooks as I was delivering some parcels nearby and the scent of freshly fried crisps was something I'd never smelled before. It was a lot different to the heavy odour you get outside a chip shop, I dont know it seemed 'crisper' (please excuse the dreadful pun) and fresher. I'm not generally a great fan of crisps but within 10 minutes I'd pulled into the nearby Morrisons petrol station and bought myself 2 packets of Seabrooks 'Ready Salted' and 'Beef' flavoured crisps - 25p per pack! Try getting Walkers crisps for that price and I wouldnt eat that filth anyway.On the subject of Morrisons petrol stations, I've noticed for years they've got a really retro and pocket friendly range of snacks and drinks, I dont know any other petrol stations where you can get a Scotch egg or growler plus a bottle of Dandelion and Burdock - or Shandy and still get change from a £1 coin. I wonder if its their Bradford roots? At the Shell petrol station at the Woodside roundabout you wouldnt see much change out of a fiver for the same stuff (if they stocked it at all).

[Carona]

jdbythesea wrote: 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.     I too remember that awful smell, jd. I also remember the awful smell from the APX pickle factory.

[raveydavey]

There used to be a distinct 'metallic' smell, a bit like overheated brakes, down around the Royal Armouries / South Accommodation Road when the foundry there was active.

[Steve266]

I Remember that Metallic smell as I used to work right where the Armouries are at Alvin MorrisYou got Tetleys one end Fondry the othere and in the middle that wonderful smell of new cut wood from Illingworths timber yard

[Bruno]

Given that the only sport I was ever any good at was swimming, the smell of the old 100% pure skin-stripping eyeball-scalding chlorine that they used to put into the public pools will remain in my nostrils until my last days. After a training session for water polo, where we couldn't wear goggles for safety reasons, we used to pour milk into our eyes to counteract the effect of the chlorine and restore our sight.

[shutthatdoor]

Carona wrote: jdbythesea wrote: 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.     I too remember that awful smell, jd. I also remember the awful smell from the APX pickle factory. There was a pickle factory at Amen Corner near Kirkstall Abbey that I remember from at least 60's/early 70's and probably in operation many years before. Sure that was APX or APEX Pickles too!

[Steve266]

Yes there was a pickle factory there we used to collect jam jars at school for them to reuse and put their pickles in the name Gibson seems to be at the back of my mind