{"id":10200,"date":"2019-04-18T21:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T21:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2019-04-18T21:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T21:58:56","slug":"the-son-of-the-oldbury-smell-oh-no-the-tipton-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=10200","title":{"rendered":"The son of The Oldbury smell- Oh no The Tipton smell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">THIS TIME IT&#8217;S PURRRRRSONAL!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pussy7.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10203\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pussy7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Oldbury smell<\/strong>&#8211; Everyone knew the source, everyone detected the odour of cat piss.\u00a0A local councillor even <a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=8890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waved her withered bush <\/a>in front of a committee as to the effects it had\u00a0blighted on the neighbourhood. I have unearthed the story of this pussy pong in several previous posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>But we are not done yet it seems from this article.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bad smell appears to have reached Tipton, (and quite ominously Dudley Port), \u00a0in this article from <strong>The Birmingham Daily Post of 29 July 1967<\/strong>. The familiar themes emerge about the MO of the offending olfactory menace- <a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=9043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sleepless nights<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=9258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making people feel ill<\/a>, and elusive to track down. But was this in itself &#8220;the Oldbury smell&#8221; of old, or a new &#8220;Lion King&#8221; on the block?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10201\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tiptonsmell1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10201\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10201\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tiptonsmell1-134x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tiptonsmell1-134x300.png 134w, https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tiptonsmell1.png 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OH YES WE DO!!!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though the source is suspected by an unnamed councillor, there is less of the vigour to do something about it as was the case with the indefatigable Councillor Gunn. <a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=9258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It had already been noted that the lagoon was causing a stink in 1958, and making nearby factory workers feel ill.<\/a> I would strongly suspect this to be down to phosphine gas.<\/p>\n<p>How was this\u00a0 remedied, who knows, though I suspect money would have changed hands somewhere to look the other way?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tiptonsmell2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10202\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tiptonsmell2-191x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tiptonsmell2-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tiptonsmell2.png 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pussy10.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10287\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pussy10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pussy10.png 184w, https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pussy10-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; THIS TIME IT&#8217;S PURRRRRSONAL! The Oldbury smell&#8211; Everyone knew the source, everyone detected the odour of cat piss.\u00a0A local councillor even waved her withered bush in front of a committee as to the effects it had\u00a0blighted on the neighbourhood. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=10200\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10200"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10491,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions\/10491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}