Smell
Of all the senses oh smell sweet smell can bring back a thousand memories flooding into my mind. It’s peculiar to think that eras have their own smells, but they do. There were smells in the 1970s that no longer exist
Harvest Festival Barn Dance when bales of straw were transported in from the countryside of Hertfordshire to a suburban church hall.
All public toilets smelt of green pine cleaner
Grandad’s coal tar soap and the peculiar smell of paraffin, a substance that Lil was sent down to buy from a dispenser outside a hardware shop – imagine now, a six year old girl going down with a cannister to fill with paraffin !
Coal going into coal shute
A waft of swimming pool,
The smell of the lido – the best smell of all
Auntie Jo’s perfume – clouds of Estee lauder
Plimsolls at school
The ropes in the gym – that we allowed to climb without supervision
Hymn books in the church
Pints of Bitter
Roll up cigarettes and pipe smoking smoke was everywhere – In houses/pubs/ aeroplanes
Plastocine
Perfume Charlie / the great smell of Brut
Buses tube trains
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