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by DanBC 4154 days ago
The train from Cheltenham to West Drayton used to travel past some light industrial sites. I strongly associate the smell of coffee[1], canals and car-scrapyards, and the gas-holder next to that line with visiting my parents when they lived outside London.

There's a bunch of this functional stuff that just gets churned over. That's probably mostly good, but it'd be nice to keep a few of them around as examples.

I think we (in the UK) can be dismissive of stuff that's only from the 1950s or 1920s because we have so much that is much much older.

[1] The Nestle factory?

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The coffee smell is because of Heathrow. They do about one roast a week for all the onboard catering.
No, it was the Nestlé factory in Hayes (West London), although it's recently closed down. A train heading out of London to West Drayton would pass very close by.

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/nestl-factory...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Nestle+UK+Ltd/@51.50038,...