What takes you back ?

[Blackrock]

Do some sounds or smells take you back to your childhood?

For me, the sound of a small plane in the sky, especially on a sunny day, immediately takes me back to secondary school and lying on the grass of the playing fields on a lunch break with my blazer under my head just listening to the lazy drone of a plane overhead.

Likewise, the smell of newly laid tar on the roads reminds me of fights we used to have as kids by picking up small pieces of warm tar, rolling them into balls and flinging them at one another. Our parents must have been at their wits end wondering how we got oily marks on our clothes (and person). Sorry Mum !

What memories do you have ?

[Hamble]

Candy floss!

The ultimate child treat in my day.

Nowadays one can buy it processed in a plastic cup.


The Mill Gate shopping Centre in Bury has a Candy floss making machine.

Not lingered to see anyone use it.

[gsgsgs]

The smell of Ramsons (wild garlic) takes me back 50+ years to Janet's Foss, one of my favourite places to visit, a very special place.

[Hector]

Candy floss!

The ultimate child treat in my day.

Nowadays one can buy it processed in a plastic cup.


The Mill Gate shopping Centre in Bury has a Candy floss making machine.

Not lingered to see anyone use it.

I made it, aged 12 to 15 on Pleasureland.

[Hamble]

I made it, aged 12 to 15 on Pleasureland.

I am impressed.I hope our paths crossed sometime then.

[Hamble]

The smell of dedicated tobacconists.
Loved the one that used to be on Lord st.

[Alikado]

The smell in ironmongers, a different aroma every which way you turned.

[MICK/GILLY]

When I was a small baby ( 1966/67 ish ) mum put me in my pram and wheeled me on a sunny day to the clinic on ( what I know now to be ) Lincoln rd.
They took me into a little room and put me on some shiny silver scales like the ones they weigh potatoes on.
I remember it was cold on my bareness , then they gave me some injections in my legs that I wasn’t happy about. Then they put this gel in my mouth it was cool and kind of magical tasting. Not many people can remember being a very small baby.

Fast forward to 2008/9 after my second son was born and he was teething. We had all the cold bite rings and a really rubbish infacol liquid ( an early calpol for babies ) that didn’t really work on anything.
So I got him some Bongela

I thought hmm and put a blob on my finger and tasted it..i knew I had tasted it somewhere before but for a minute couldn’t work it out as I had not tasted it since.
Then it dawned on me what that gel was that they put in my mouth as a baby and in my memory went flashing back to that clinic thinking BONGELA IT WAS BONGELA.

[MICK/GILLY]

The smell in ironmongers, a different aroma every which way you turned.

My dad worked as a machinist at Lattimers for a lifetime and I used to go and visit him sometimes and that place has its own distinct smell.

[said]

My dad worked as a machinist at Lattimers for a lifetime and I used to go and visit him sometimes and that place has its own distinct smell.

1. When I was a kid, our house was directly opposite a bakery. The smell of hot fruit buns could not be ignored. I used to go to the back door of the bakery and buy some hot buns before the shop opened, I'd eaten them before getting back across the road.

2. The ozone of the sea on a windy day.

3. The smell of soap powder on freshly laundered clothing.

Yuk Smells:

1. Cheap aftershave and perfumes

2. Stagnant water

3. Cannabis

[Lamparilla]

Whenever I go down Houghton Street, I always remember Moors Market. As a very small child, my Mum used to take me in there when she bought her fruit and veg. I can still picture the wonderful colours of all the displays.

[Alikado]

Whenever I go down Houghton Street, I always remember Moors Market. As a very small child, my Mum used to take me in there when she bought her fruit and veg. I can still picture the wonderful colours of all the displays.

And the fish.

[*concerned*]

Cooked onions and Westlers burgers at a travelling fair

[Hamble]

The smell of new wood.
Takes me back to the delicious smell of new Cuisenaire rods in School.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods

[jamyramy]

till now!then teh realisation the matrix one size experience fits all.!!!