The smell around Sighthhill

[kelvin_hall]

what is that sulphorous pong?

[james73]

There was some sort of chemical works around the Pinkston Road area
years ago - the smell is presumably cos the ground is saturated with
whatever it used to spew out. Seems to be worse when it's wet.


James H

[crusty_bint]

I always thought it was from the distilliery at Port Dundas?

[Socceroo]

The smell was mentioned on a previous thread, it's really bad around Pinkston Road especially if it rains after being dry for a while.

Various smells - a bit sulphorous and also like bitumen or crude oil. Guess it would have been old chemical works or some heavy industry site.

[Monument]

I drove past there last week with a colleague who told me the smell was from old mine workings underneath that area and pointed out that shaft thing by the road on the edge of the park. Have I been lied to?

[Pripyat]

Get dialling

[Ronnie]

Why would a mine smell? It's not as if it's full of the decaying bodies of dead canaries or anything.

[johnnyanglia]

I was told a while back(although i cant confirm it)that it is the site of a Victorian rubbish tip.

[DVF]

I was always told it was the chemical works but they're too far south surely? That's where the polis station is.

In between the two railways and the cemetary there was a paint or a soap factory. Seen it on a map somewhere but can't find it now. I'm thinking it's their fault.

Monument, that shaft thingy. The round brick building with the slopey roof at the little car park? I think that's what's left of the entrance to the old railway tunnel, certainly looks like it from the stonework that's still there.

[james73]

I was always told it was the chemical works but they're too far south surely? That's where the polis station is.

In between the two railways and the cemetary there was a paint or a soap factory. Seen it on a map somewhere but can't find it now. I'm thinking it's their fault.

Monument, that shaft thingy. The round brick building with the slopey roof at the little car park? I think that's what's left of the entrance to the old railway tunnel, certainly looks like it from the stonework that's still there.

Theres some info on page 8 and 9 of this thread about the tunnel's north portal.


James H

[Alex Saville]

Hello from Springburn
That area where you get the pong is know locally as the 'stinky ocean'. I personally dont remember the chemical works but the older folks will tell you there was some sort of 'lagoon' there at one time.
Round about the flats near Pinkston Rd you can come across some sort of vent such as seen at the Patersons coup at London Rd. At the coup the vent is for methane to vent into the air. I dont know if the vents at Sighthill serve the same purpose for the old chemical works ground to let the chemical gas escape on build up. Maybe someone who is an engineer or chemist would know.
The building referred to has something to do with the old railway tunnel to Buchanan St Station.
Alex

[james73]

Hello from Springburn
That area where you get the pong is know locally as the 'stinky ocean'. I personally dont remember the chemical works but the older folks will tell you there was some sort of 'lagoon' there at one time.

That might be this:





James H

[Alex Saville]

Yes, I think you are right! Its roughly about the same place where the worst of the smell is.
Alex

[macca734]

As far as I know there was a chemical works there, or at least thats whats the legend says.

Theres another story [the one I believe] that says they used to dump the by-products from the Germiston gasworks there. If anyone knows how they used to make gas before we found it in the North Sea they should also know that the resultant chemicals are nasty, pongy stuff. Even at the time it was classed as toxic waste.



Wullie.

[DickyHart]

My understanding is some of the park was built from landfill and its the methane escaping, certainly has a similar nasty niff as that bit on the motorway heading out towards edinburgh.