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What 'smells' do you recall from days gone by - and what images or memories do they conjure up?
Coke burning in the grate - which always had a different smell to that given off by coal.
Carbolic soap - which we had a chunk of to wash our mucky hands with in Infant School
Steam trains
Opening the front door - and being met by the smell of the bread that my mother was baking.
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Toast on the tosting fork by the fire
Soapsuds in the sink on washday
Fish on my uncles clothes from the VERY active fish market
Classrooms always had a school smell sort of plasticiny
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Toast on the tosting fork by the fire
And when it 'caught' and burned - it had a different smell! 
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The all-pervading stink smell of Soused Herrings when my mother made them. I think they were done on a very low heat in the oven for about a week! We lived in a 3-storey house - and the smell was everywhere!
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Coming home from work and opening the front door to the smell of bloaters-didn't have to wonder "What's for tea"!!!!!!
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Serious question - do bloaters cooking smell different from Kippers a'cooking? 
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toast on a coal fire best in world smell different taste different
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Gibbs toothpaste in a tin -a pink block instead of a squeezy tube.
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Walking in from school and knowing immediately my mum had used a home perm (yuck!) Other days I knew that my aunt and uncle and visited because he smoked a really stinky pipe!
A couple of years ago I managed to find "Ariel" for sale in a funky little discount store. As soon as I started that first wash with it I was back in my mum's kitchen on a Monday with her sweating over her twintub.
The combination of leather and Aramis aftershave also takes me back.....but that's all I'm saying!
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The smell of Durbac soap Mum used to wash our hair with to prevent nits! YUK!
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They say the dog is man's best friend. I don't believe it - how many of your friends would you neuter?
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Ah now if we are on to after shave Eileen, thats another story, Brut it was for me
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Old spice for me
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I was just going to say -the aftershave -not Kevin!!!!!!!!!
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How about the deep aroma when you went into a cobblers shop,the cutting of the leather the smells of the black (stuff) they melted & put around your soles.
Or this one, collecting your dinner which would cost one old penny from the bake house on the corner of chapel st. & Dukes head street.
The two great ovens, the twenty or more different dinners & cakes being cooked. Oh.yum yum. Any one been their?
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For anyone 'of a certain age' and local I will say one word - Deveroux 's any memories of smells there?
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For anyone 'of a certain age' and local I will say one word - Deveroux 's any memories of smells there?
Ground coffee!!!
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I agree! 
Of course, there was the day when their Coffee Bean Roasting Machine went afire - and so it was Burnt Roast Coffee!
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It was also a real grocery smell cheese, sugar, tea and all things nice, just waftinng around because nothing was prepacked, all in containers waiting to be weighed out and packed in little home made cones with a twist at the bottom The cheess was cut with a wire on a big board
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no give age away but as child i remember sainberry's that were counters and ladies with snoods on serving,use ne lovely smell of cheese
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"The cheese was cut with wire" and you could have added fc. that the green mould was trimmed of the cheesefirst thing in the mornings, the butter was patted and wrapped for each individual.
What a lovely pace we set for our selves.
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Fresh mown grass...
Laying next to a young girl looking at the clouds pass by talking about the history exam we had just completed with satisfaction.
When SWMBO reads that I'll not be allowed near any mown grass again
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There are NO strangers HERE ! Only Friends who have not yet met....
One cannot think well, sleep well,live well if one has not dinned well "virginia woolf"
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Oh yes
Sticks n stones hurt my bones
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whips and chains excite me
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There are NO strangers HERE ! Only Friends who have not yet met....
One cannot think well, sleep well,live well if one has not dinned well "virginia woolf"
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Trigger, I need the aroma of the grass not just the thought 
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There are NO strangers HERE ! Only Friends who have not yet met....
One cannot think well, sleep well,live well if one has not dinned well "virginia woolf"
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From what you said - I got the impression that you could actually recall the smell of the "Fresh Mown Grass" 
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