London stinks

[HertsBiker]

Of garbage and effluent.
No nice way to say it but east London stinks. How does this impress visitors? I'm assuming the rest of London has a similar pong problem.
Is this how all major cities are?
Thank god I live way outside.

[Boba Fret]

East london smells FAR FAR FAR worse than other parts!!!!

God help the Olympics!

[BDR529]

Birmingham and Manchester smell perfectly normal.

Must be a London thing.

[ianash]

The stench in east London might have something to do with the giant Beckton sewage works.

[Mobile Chicane]

In most European cities you'll find that the 'poor areas' are in the east.

That's because the prevailing wind is from the west...

[sebhaque]

I used to live in Morden, SW London and amazingly it mostly smelt of smog as per London in general, occasionally some of the local kids would set fire to something and there'd be the smell of fire in the air (it's a lovely area, honest)

[Council Baby]

Smells lovely here in Camberwell, as long as you like crack cocaine, alocohol, african restaurants, coconut oil, tyre smoke and gunpowder.

[don4l]

I'm all for building a 12 foot, Berlin style, wall around London - just inside the M25. London could have its parliament in Westminster and we could have our parliament in Oxford, or Cheltenham.

Hunting with dogs would be illegal in London, and we could have a ciggie in a pub in hampshire. What's not to like?

Don
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[Mr POD]

HertsBiker said:

Of garbage and effluent.
No nice way to say it but east London stinks. How does this impress visitors? I'm assuming the rest of London has a similar pong problem.
Is this how all major cities are?
Thank god I live way outside.

I last went to London some years ago, and can't say I noticed the smell, but I'll take your word for it, and think myself lucky to live about a mile from the Irish Sea, where on a good day I can stand on a sand dune and look out to Anglesea on one side and the lake district on the other and New Brighton and liverpool just to the south and Blackpool tower and the big one to the north, and breath in the fresh salty air coming from the Isle of Mann just out of the distance. Might take the Dog tomorrow when I get home from work.

[WorAl]

Council Baby said:

Smells lovely here in Camberwell, as long as you like crack cocaine, alocohol, african restaurants, coconut oil, tyre smoke and gunpowder.

I WANT TO LIVE IN CAMBERWELL!!!!

I don't really, I like my farm and fields

[matrignano]

Nothing compared to Manhattan or most North African cities I've been to...

[Pork]

Surely its the drains due to lack of rain? Any extended dry period and London stinks of ass.

[Council Baby]

Pork said:

Surely its the drains due to lack of rain? Any extended dry period and London stinks of ass.

We still slop out via the windows round these parts

[Ricky_M]

I haven't ever been to London, but can anyone tell me if it smells worse than Port Talbot?

[BrabusMog]

Don't forget Camberwell also has Carravagio, possibly one of the best independent restaurants in the world.

It's Deptford and Lewisham that smell like st, I'm sure they'll sort out Stratford before the Games.

[Council Baby]

BrabusMog said:

Don't forget Camberwell also has Carravagio, possibly one of the best independent restaurants in the world.

It's Deptford and Lewisham that smell like st, I'm sure they'll sort out Stratford before the Games.

I jest, I like it here, but for a lot of people it takes some serious getting used to, especially at night

[BrabusMog]

It does have it's fair share of crack heads, too

[Council Baby]

BrabusMog said:

It does have it's fair share of crack heads, too

Understatement of the millennium, generally down the Peckham Road (Peckham end) outside the 24hr off license, and hookers, really ugly flea eaten toothless ones.

Yes that part of london smells.

Anyway I'm off down the shop to score... laters

[Mobile Chicane]

Council Baby said:

BrabusMog said:

Don't forget Camberwell also has Carravagio, possibly one of the best independent restaurants in the world.

It's Deptford and Lewisham that smell like st, I'm sure they'll sort out Stratford before the Games.

I jest, I like it here, but for a lot of people it takes some serious getting used to, especially at night

Your local Tesco was an 'experience' in daylight...

[Glassman]

HertsBiker said:

Of garbage and effluent.
No nice way to say it but east London stinks. How does this impress visitors? I'm assuming the rest of London has a similar pong problem.
Is this how all major cities are?
Thank god I live way outside.

There's a horrible stench around where the A406 meets the A13. Nasty, like an open sewer. Haven't noticed it before, but over the past week or so, it's been humming quite a bit... 'orrible.