The Wellingtonista Asks...
What is with the indescribably awful smell that lingers along Tory St between Buckle St and (roughly) Lorne St?
It's there most mornings and makes the walk to work quite foul.
Some people I know have always referred to one of the side streets (Tennyson St, I think) as "Stinky Fish St".
there is a garage business of some type at 6 ebor street. It emits a dry putrid smellout of its chimney that eminates all over the soco district.
no idea what they are producing.
hate it.
There's also a lot of coffee roasting going on around there, which doesn't smell nearly as good as you'd hope (said as a fan of coffee).
The comment by anonymous is smack on the money - the smell is from Cafe Laffare when they roast at their premises on Ebor St.
One can occasionally see the forklift driving back and forth from the cafe to the roastery.
I love coffee ( People's Coffee Columbian for me ) and abhor that smell.
I spent 10 months building Sanctum Apartments and 6 doing Terry the Greek's monstrosity that is Century City and though 3 storeys up the Lone Star whiffs a bit ( and over on Lorne St the fish factory is special in it's own way ) the blame can definitely be sheeted home to Laffare in Ebor.
definitely coffee, as other's have said. you can get a gentler version of the same stink from Aro Cafe when they run their roaster.
Has anyone else also noticed a regular smell of burnt toast in roughly the same area?
The burnt toast smell is sometime the discharge from a panelbeaters around there. I used to smell it every day on my bus ride to school ('95 to '99 baby) down Vivian St.
Perhaps the City Council could have a truck going around those areas spraying perfumed air fresh to cover the pong??
That's funny, in the evening I walk up Vivian St past the back of L'Affare and there is often a lovely (distinctly coffee) aroma that I assumed was from roasting going on there.
I also walk up Tory St in the mornings, and frequently notice and wonder about the disgusting burnt-chemical smell. Never occurred to me that could also caused by coffee roasting.
It might be mixture of the fish, the mechanics and the roastery, as the smell is only on certain days.
However, I haven't smelled it since I put this post up. Maybe the culprits were shamed.
my neighbours cats are pooing in my pot plants and small garden (inner city). The pong in the streets doesn't deter them wandering around even with their amazing sensitivity of smell. How do I deter them??
I had trouble with cats using my planter box as a dunny, so I got a whole lot of sharp sticks and inserted them in the gaps between the plants, basically creating a forest of sticks. It would have taken one brave (or weird) cat to plonk its bum on my plants after that!
Try to use mothballs to ward off cats from your garden.
Possibly one of inner Wellington's urban stealth fish processing plants?
I think there's one the side street opposite Moore Wilsons Fresh and (unrelated to this stink) another on Webb Street also.