Interesting smell.....

[MoominPapa]

We're currently moored at Fenny Stratford down the far end of the moorings furthest from the lock. Just the other side of the bridge there's a factory which, according to Google, makes flavours and fragrances.

Well. at the moment they're mass producing synthetic "strawberry". The whole area smells like Nesquik. I'm not sure if I like it or not.

 

MP.

 

[carlt]

Well it's got to be nicer than leaky Thetford seals.

[WotEver]

1 minute ago, carlt said:

Well it's got to be nicer than leaky Thetford seals.

Or Demaulders (as used to be) at Hartshill. 

[Boat&Bikes]

1 minute ago, WotEver said:

Or Demaulders (as used to be) at Hartshill. 

I don’t think it smells like it used to does it? I know they spent lots on clean air equipment. 

[philjw]

1 minute ago, ianali said:

I don’t think it smells like it used to does it?

What was it? Always smelt like burning chicken feathers to me.

[Boat&Bikes]

1 minute ago, philjw said:

What was it? Always smelt like burning chicken feathers to me.

If you don’t know then it’s best left that way. Your close enough with that guess anyway. 

[MoominPapa]

10 minutes ago, carlt said:

Well it's got to be nicer than leaky Thetford seals.

Indeed 

[mark99]

Anyone remember Pura Foods in East London? Terrible honk.

[Detling]

I can remember being moored in Norwich on a hire Yacht when Colman's were making mint sauce.  All the sheep for miles around were in hiding.

[carlt]

8 minutes ago, philjw said:

What was it? Always smelt like burning chicken feathers to me.

Prosper DeMulder was the largest abattoir/meat renderers in the country and, at one point, the UK's largest family owned company.

Famously responsible for the spread of BSE and many other bits of dodginess.

[philjw]

1 minute ago, carlt said:

Prosper DeMulder was the largest abattoir/meat renderers in the country

Thanks Carl.  That doesn't surprise me.  I couldn't have taken one of the long term moorings there because of the smell.

[Heffalump]

I work opposite a faccenda foods chicken factory.  The smell of 1.5 million birds a week being inhumed can be hard to shift.

[Alan de Enfield]

The maggot factory near Burton Joyce (on the Trent) was always a place to avoid stopping.

[nbfiresprite]

There was the sweetly sick smell from Parr's Rocket factory in Branksome which used to waffed over Poole Harbour to our home in Arne when the wind came from the north east. As did the burn smell from Ryvita biscuits factory in Newtown

[Hudds Lad]

be thankful it's not a pig farm

[tree monkey]

1 hour ago, MoominPapa said:

We're currently moored at Fenny Stratford down the far end of the moorings furthest from the lock. Just the other side of the bridge there's a factory which, according to Google, makes flavours and fragrances.

Well. at the moment they're mass producing synthetic "strawberry". The whole area smells like Nesquik. I'm not sure if I like it or not.

 

MP.

 

Used to cut grass on an estate in Mold and the nearby factory make shower gel and similar, whole place smelled like a cheap boudoir ( I think).

First day moving into a small flat was a day when the local place rendered all the dead farm animals down, that was rank, stopped noticing after a month

Lever bros has a soap factory just a few miles away from home as a kid and its amazing how that used to stink

Oh and finally all I can say is growing up in Ellesmere Port gave one a wierd idea of what the world smells like, always remember the smell of home fondly (not!), I think we might have similar memories of the port ?

 

[MoominPapa]

1 minute ago, tree monkey said:

Oh and finally all I can say is growing up in Ellesmere Port gave one a wierd idea of what the world smells like, always remember the smell of home fondly (not!), I think we might have similar memories of the port ?

I bet you  still look out for the first sight of the flares at Stanlow as you drive back down the M56?

MP.

 

[Sea Dog]

There was a tannery bordering on the Cammel Laird shipyard in Birkenhead.  If there's anything that smells quite as bad as that, I'd be surprised. Walking past it after a night on the beer was the ultimate test.  Mind you, a penguin colony also takes a bit of beating... 

[nbfiresprite]

5 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

be thankful it's not a pig farm

About 30 years a housing estate was built in the Village of Throop near Christchurch next door to a Pig Farm that was listed in the Doomsday Book. The  residents than demained that the farm be shut down.

[tree monkey]

3 minutes ago, MoominPapa said:

I bet you  still look out for the first sight of the flares at Stanlow as you drive back down the M56?

MP.

 

Yup, rarely flare nowadays

[Sea Dog]

10 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said:

About 30 years a housing estate was built in the Village of Throop near Christchurch next door to a Pig Farm that was listed in the Doomsday Book. The  residents than demained that the farm be shut down.

The swine!

[carlt]

20 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said:

About 30 years a housing estate was built in the Village of Throop near Christchurch next door to a Pig Farm that was listed in the Doomsday Book.

The Doomsday Book listing says...

Quote

Throop - Pig Farm - Blooming stinks to high heaven

 

[WotEver]

1 hour ago, ianali said:

I don’t think it smells like it used to does it? I know they spent lots on clean air equipment. 

Lionel sold the company and yes, it no longer smells. 

[Tanglewood]

Did it not used to be a sweetie factory? (Fenny Stratford)  If you know what it is it smells better than if you don't.  What about the coffee or sometimes custard from General Foods at Banbury.  

[MoominPapa]

3 minutes ago, Tanglewood said:

Did it not used to be a sweetie factory? (Fenny Stratford)

Could have been. It's part of a mahoosive international conglomerate now.

 

https://www.sensientflavorsandfragrances.com/

 

MP.