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Another deeply evocative smell from my teenage years was the smell of raw power - of overheated Castrol "R" oil from the motorbikes we used to race on grass tracks at race meetings.

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The smell of barbeques (most neighbours with gardens seem to do them round here).

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I can't remember barbecues from my earlier days (when did they start?) ..... what I do remember is the aroma of the special treat of egg and bacon on a Sunday morning.

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Barbeques have been around for the past 40 odd years Mag darlin' - I certainly remember attending several that my neighbours hosted back in the 70s.

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The smell of a meadow cut for hay.

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Fields of Strawberries ripening in the sun in the days when there was always lots of straw around them and skylarks singing overhead.

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That's recent for me UJ, I'm going back to the 40's

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There were still barbeques (after a fashion) even back then - did you have men selling roast chestnuts in the street over a coal-fired brazier??? - There used to be a fisherman who, having brought his boat up on the beach, used to cook some or all of his catch on a brazier on the beach.

My Grandad used to cook some of his food on a shovel stuck inside the fire box of a steam engine.