Things you rarely smell nowadays.

[Starling]

'Aunt Sally' liquid floor cleaner.

Throughout the 1950s, Mum used to scrub our tiled kitchen floor with it. (Apparently it contained carbolic acid.)

[Blackrock]

Coal Tar Soap- sanitised creosote love the smell.
I used to wash my hands at a friends house just to smell it.

You still get 'Wrights' Coal Tar soap. I bought some a Tesco a few months ago. Like you Hamble, I love the smell as it takes me back to scrubbed with it as a child

[theantiquesman]

I love that wonderful aroma of the ANTIQUE SHOP.

The French polish and bees wax............. make you want to turn the Grandfather clock back.

[toothache]

Cocoa and sugar on a piece of paper in your hand for when your sweets coupons ran out.
Lick your finger and dip it in.
WHOOPS - SORRY - I forgot it said SMELL.

[Taxi Driver]

Female bike saddles outside the library, not since the last time as I was arrested, I didn't enjoy community service and it's part of my conditions of bail.

[Hamble]

You still get 'Wrights' Coal Tar soap. I bought some a Tesco a few months ago. Like you Hamble, I love the smell as it takes me back to scrubbed with it as a child

I have bought modern coal tar soap it has lost some of its potency.😍

[Hamble]

Cocoa and sugar on a piece of paper in your hand for when your sweets coupons ran out.
Lick your finger and dip it in.
WHOOPS - SORRY - I forgot it said SMELL.

It did smell deliciously forbidden.😁

[Hamble]

Staying in Southport overnight has reminded me of the smells of the fairground when it was all pervasive.

Also the smell of the toffee creamery in the town centre.L have forgotten the name.
One could watch a machine mixing through the window x

[Alikado]

Frying onions

[seivad]

Also the smell of the toffee creamery in the town centre.L have forgotten the name.
One could watch a machine mixing through the window x

It was called Eulah, on the corner of Chapel Street & Corporation Street. It was almost impossible to walk past it without stopping to watch the machine.

[The PNP]

I have bought modern coal tar soap it has lost some of its potency.😍

Wrights stopped production some 20 years ago and sold the trademark/brand. New owners modified the formula, sadly 'Wrights' soap no longer contains coal tar.

[Lamparilla]

Staying in Southport overnight has reminded me of the smells of the fairground when it was all pervasive.

Also the smell of the toffee creamery in the town centre.L have forgotten the name.
One could watch a machine mixing through the window x

There was also the toffee factory on Virginia Street - I think it was called Sharps. They used to make the famous Penny Arrow Bars in different flavours.

[Alikado]

There was also the toffee factory on Virginia Street - I think it was called Sharps. They used to make the famous Penny Arrow Bars in different flavours.

It was Hollands Toffee, the home of the Penny Arrow Bar and the BlackJack, somebody who worked there warned me not to eat the Blackjacks or any black / blackcurrent/ aniseed flavours as they were made out of the leftovers and stuff that had been on they floor.

The factory in Shakespeare St was White Hudsons, home of Hacks cough sweets.

[Lamparilla]

It was Hollands Toffee, the home of the Penny Arrow Bar and the BlackJack, somebody who worked there warned me not to eat the Blackjacks or any black / blackcurrent/ aniseed flavours as they were made out of the leftovers and stuff that had been on they floor.

The factory in Shakespeare St was White Hudsons, home of Hacks cough sweets.

Oh yes, Hollands, I remember now - thank you. My favourite Penny Arrow Bar was banana flavour, but I doubt very much if they used actual banana in it!


If I remember correctly, Blackjacks were 4 for a penny (the old 1d) and you could also get Fruit Salad and (I think) Mojos.

[seivad]

There was also the toffee factory on Virginia Street - I think it was called Sharps. They used to make the famous Penny Arrow Bars in different flavours.

It was Holland's Toffee back in my day.