Currently, do you remember the old fashioned shops where each shop had it's own

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'smell'? Like the bakers, you could smell real baking, not the mass produced, oven ready stuff commonly called in-store baked.

The butchers with the fresh meat and sawdust on the floor.

The general store like Duckworth's with its big coffee grinder scenting the whole shop.

And my own favourite, the iron mongers/hardware store with it's unique, indescribable mixture of a smell. something like parrafin, turps and paint mixed with nuts, bolts and nails.

Even the hairdressers has its own pong.

And you never, nowadays get the whiff of beer wafting out of the open door as you pass a pub.

Do you miss the scents and smells? What do you remember?
Luke. Are you always so monosyllabic on your answers?
I just looked thru your Answers and yes, you mostly are, and rude too. Gerroff mine.
CV I used to pass a brewery on my way to work, and yes, the smell is very distinctive, and memorable.
 
There was a tiny independent shoe shop by us ...sold purses and wallets as well, it was so tiny the smell of leather was pungent.

The record shop used to smell of incense sticks to hide the smell of the er ciggies the owner used to smoke.

I'm only talking about the local shops when I was growing up, all of them so tiny the smells were discernible not like the huge shops now.

My two favourites were one called Halls which sold 'fancy goods' lol. Obviously it's goods were anything but fancy. It used to have sweet jars filled with bouncy rubber balls, and huge handled hooks to get the stock down from the ceiling. That shop smelt of PVC because of all the toys and plastic shite contained in it.

The other was 'the pet shop' which didn't sell any pets. It obviously sold fruit and veg and dog meat :-O They always had Lilies by the door ands a little old woman who loved me and gave me sweets so I associate that smell with Chewits cos me Mum was a cow and never bought me any sweets EVER.
 
Most certainly, thanks for the memories, but these days unless you go to small shops for shopping you aren't going to enjoy those smells and atmosphere any more.
 
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