1970-75 I was a pupil at Hinde House school and every now and again there was a stench of "rotting flesh which would linger all day and sometimes longer.
it was told that the smell was from dead bodies in the cemetery and to be honest the smell was that bad.
Thinking about it, I personally doubt this as they would be no reason to dig up corpses from the ground and if they did it would be unlikely to smell that bad as most of them would be just skeletal remains.
Did anyone else remember this horrible smell and do you know of its source.
NOW ON ANOTHER CHEERY NOTE.:suspect:

Cycleracer,
As you know, I was a pupil at South Yorkshire's answer to Buchenvald between 1974 and 1978. To be honest, I don't remember the stench of the dead. Although, looking back there were some filthy beggars at that infamous school, and the pupils could have done with a wash too. Perhaps the smell came not from the nearby graveyard, but from the office of that Prince of Darkness, the sinister, caped Headmaster that was Edwards. I do feel sorry for Edwards sometimes- it must have been cold in the ground in the morning.

I used to live on Shiregreen Lane not far from the Cemetery and some times an there was a smell..but only when the wind was blowing in one direction..my Mother told me that the smell came from Blackburn Meadows sewage Farm ... I remember that was somewhere near the New Stadium.

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This would almost certainly have been Blackburn Meadows sewage farm which was just at the back of the Two cooling towers at Meadowhall, when the weather conditions were right, the smell would drift up the hill, it was a constant source of complaint by local residents.

ialso lived on shiregreen lane and was told it was the meadows as you still smell it now i also went to hinde house

I was one of the first inmates at Hinde House when it went comprehensive and there was indeed a hell of a stink coming from the cemetery but it was more like horse manure.

The stench probably came from the old refuse dump that was around that area, it was between the cemetry and the road that leads down to Wincobank from memory, they built houses on it later, but had problems as the refuse was still burning underground.

It was Blackburn Meadows and it was only bad when we got high temperatures and the right wind. Lot of people putting a downer on Hinde House on here, I enjoyed it there from 1985-88.

It was Blackburn Meadows and it was only bad when we got high temperatures and the right wind. Lot of people putting a downer on Hinde House on here, I enjoyed it there from 1985-88.

Couldn't agree more. It had (and still has, according to work colleagues) a bad name, but I won't have a bad word said against it.

Couldn't agree more. It had (and still has, according to work colleagues) a bad name, but I won't have a bad word said against it.

Thats Hinde House by the way, not the cemetery.

Thats Hinde House by the way, not the cemetery.

From what I've been told (I don't live in the area anymore) Its changed from all recognition and they only really use the upper school now? When was you educated there mate?

From what I've been told (I don't live in the area anymore) Its changed from all recognition and they only really use the upper school now? When was you educated there mate?

The whole school was flattened and rebuilt a couple of years back. Looks really swish now, not the crumbling old asbestos pit we knew and loved. I went 95-99:D

The dead are always walking Shiregreen. You only need to look at the back of the church at around 3AM on Windmill Lane.Something not quite right in there. Watch out for the bishop and the prophet.
What bull****

Nothing wrong with the church or Windmill Lane.

Perhaps if people had frequented it more it would not have closed down and now potentially become a Mosque!!!

1970-75 I was a pupil at Hinde House school and every now and again there was a stench of "rotting flesh which would linger all day and sometimes longer.
it was told that the smell was from dead bodies in the cemetery and to be honest the smell was that bad.
Thinking about it, I personally doubt this as they would be no reason to dig up corpses from the ground and if they did it would be unlikely to smell that bad as most of them would be just skeletal remains.
Did anyone else remember this horrible smell and do you know of its source.
NOW ON ANOTHER CHEERY NOTE.:suspect:
what a funny thought - rotting flesh in shiregreen - on the other hand it may be true but it'd be the live ones ponging! No not really, I lived in Shiregreen and we were a decent enough bunch.
I reckon the pong would be the sulphur smell from the smelting works. My dad worked at Arthur Lees, later Lee Bright Steels, and he said smelting caused this pong, thought the link between smelting and smells confused me quite a bit.
I used to stand on a chair at our attic window on Leedham Road and watch the vast red/orange glow when they opened the blast furnaces. The sight was amazing, but the sound was incredible - the air was full of a rushing noise.

The stench probably came from the old refuse dump that was around that area, it was between the cemetry and the road that leads down to Wincobank from memory, they built houses on it later, but had problems as the refuse was still burning underground.
...that wasn't a refuse dump, it was a spoil tip from the steel works !
We moved from Newman Road up to Leedham Road when I was 5 and we used to short-cut across it on the way home from school, before the houses were built. There was no 'rubbish' of the household sort, but there was a solid, vast, mile-wide plateau of black shiny melted stuff and black mash, and if you fell down on it, your clothes would be literally coal black, and the shiny lumps could cut. It was horrible and mucky and nasty to walk on, and my mother slipped down a slope and broke her wrist there!
I wouldn't be surprised if there was something going on underground there; it must be very deep, and I wouldn't have bought a house on there.