Has anyone noticed the smell in this area getting worse?
I was almost gagging coming up there this morning and struggling to breathe.
I take it it is something to do with chickens or something.
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Fowl smell on Gogar Station Road
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Fattening them up for Christmas.
Posted 10 years ago # -
My office is only about 600m away. When the wind is a prevailing WSW-ish, we get the smell blowing over Edinburgh Park and South Gyle all day long. Highly unpleasant.
Posted 10 years ago # -
"I take it it is something to do with chickens or something."
Wind direction and probably (recently) 'still air'.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The smell can only be characterised as Satan's own sneakers.
Those sheds makes me think of my grandfather's stories of the end of world war two and the places he came across that could be smelt from several miles off.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Still labelled as "Stinkin' Chickin Farm" on OSM. Seems appropriate.
Posted 10 years ago # -
In the early days of work being in its new HQ in Edinburgh Park, the chicken 'stench' was so bad that it was sucked in by the aircon and circulated round the entire building. You could barely breathe without wanting to throw up. My manager (who was into aromatherapy) soaked tissues in aromatherapy oils and paper-clipped them to our sleeves, to give us all 'something more pleasant to smell'. Later in the day, the property and catering staff were made to walk around the whole building, liberally spraying cans of air freshener as they went.
Thankfully the intake of the reek of putrifaction doesn't happen any more, although it can be throat-catchingly bad sometimes when cycling down towards work from Ed Park Station.
Posted 10 years ago # -
There was a geocache called "Abraham Lincoln" near here...
Not sure if it still is...
Posted 10 years ago # -
I see someone else has already mentioned the labelling of the farm on OSM.... http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/230939628
The worst of it is when cycling over the bridge next to Krispy Kreme on some mornings there is a point where the sweet fried fat odour mixes with chicken stink and the transition is the very worst smell.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Phone SEPA ...
Posted 10 years ago # -
I did. They sympathised but refused to do anything about Krispy Kreme.
Posted 10 years ago # -
When cycling into town, the smell of the biscuit factory makes up for it a few minutes later.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I've never liked the smell of that biscuit factory as it smells like the wrong sort of biscuits. Then again, I love eating oatcakes but don't particularly admire the Nairnwaft on Peffermill Road either.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The biscuit factory, Sloans the baker, the caley brewery and the distillery who needs over air fresheners that's the olfactory tour of west Edinburgh. (Bit of a weird commute though)
Nothing says home to me like the smell coming over the approach road. Though at the old Tynecastle when the wind blew in the wrong direction that distillery really did reek!
Posted 10 years ago # -
@wingpig
without clicking on the link- that would be Farmer Bunce?
Posted 10 years ago #
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