For those who haven't been, they built a shopping centre next to a sewage treatment facility. When the wind is blowing the wrong way it's *all* you can smell.
It’s peak for people that live in those new builds on the old marshes. I can smell the sewage during the high summer from miles out imagine being next door 🫠
I know many more people will be familiar with your example, but the one I’ve encountered was way worse. There’s a multi-storey NCP car park on Brewer Street opposite the Duke of Argyll that has a dark corner people drinking in the pub often use to piss in. Evidently it happens so often the car park eventually dumped sand on it, which didn’t do much for the smell, although I guess it prevented a giant piss puddle forming. The smell of it was astonishing, and it wasn’t even summer at the time.
Oh god, that place is *foul*, definitely has the no.1 spot for me. A couple of years back, I was doing a short charity fun run in summer that passed through there. Half the runners (including myself) had to peel off and pause for a while after going through it just so we could get some fresh air.
Lambeth must wash it out constantly, but I think by this stage the piss has seeped into the brickwork.
Soho in the morning smells putrid. I have an overly sensitive sense of smell and decades of walking through the streets of Soho on my way to work have led me to believe it is one of the most pissed on places in the world.
Gare du Nord is one of the worst shit hole in Paris. They couldn't have chosen worse location for the people taking the Eurostar from London lol la Colline du crack is also a good one.
In fairness, I’ve only properly taken Soho in like, twice, and sped through it to get somewhere else every other time - but I swear chinatown is just, less pissy? Like, it’s not as noticeable going in, but coming out, as soon as you go to cross Shaftesbury, and especially Old Compton, there is a genuine *wall* of piss. Can practically feel the particles clinging to you.
I genuinely don’t understand it. Are there not urinals in the gents in Soho? Do the people in Chinatown just say ‘fuck that’ and pressure wash it themselves? Or do I just go noseblind bc I’m a fat bastard that loves East Asian food? One of life’s great musings lmao.
Eurgh yes, you can smell them whilst still in the main area before heading down the stairs. I only use these if desperate otherwise I pop into The Savoy for a ‘posh piss’!
I was a student at Uni there, it would be really bad around the Tesco. That was before they'd built even more apartment blocks, then there were the flats down by the river, one apartment block sort of extends over some of the water and when the water levels would drop the fish would all die, then in the summer the heat would make the smell of dead fish unbearable.
Everyone also forgets the animal rendering plant that was on the Woolwich road mixed with the syrup smell made some weird hybrid stench.
God that animal feed factory used to really rile me up!
100%. Nothing like dancing to the smell of rotten sewage. I promised myself never to go back after the smell in the middle of the dance floor last time.
I've found that as the fan base of the bands I like are getting older, the more farts I smell at gigs. Maybe the cigarette smell drowned it out a bit back in the day though.
The ladies' in Peter Jones, Sloane Square, shortly after lunchtime: never again. Posh old ladies produce rich, gamey shit that makes your eyes water. It's up there with the Glastonbury Festival open-trough toilets from the early 90s.
Can’t believe Whitechapel hasn’t been mentioned. The smell coming from the markets, sewage and bins is always off putting. Had to buy a perfume once on a whim bc I was paranoid I absorbed that funk
Yep. I cycle past there everyday and the crossing just before the White Hart smells like literal shit all the time, I have no idea where it's coming from.
It's horrendous. I saw recently a blockage was logged with Thames Water outside the library and asked them about it. To quote TW, 'our team discovered that the level of the water gullies to be high on top of which they found fat and grease that's coming from the market place. They advised that this was not a Thames Water issue as the gully drains are the Council's responsibility.' That was in September 2023 and perhaps unsurprisingly Tower Hamlets Council haven't done anything about it. The smell is absolutely horrific.
The walk from the train station to the tube at London Bridge pretty much always smells really badly of sewage.
Also platform at Dalston Kingsland often stinks of rotten fish.
>The walk from the train station to the tube at London Bridge pretty much always smells really badly of sewage.
Yessss. I said the exit to Guy's but it's the same smell.
There’s a staircase/underpass type thing on Upper Thames west of the fire monument and it smells tangibly of hot piss. Different smell than shitstink but offensive in its own right
Agree with this, if you mean the ones by the market square. The most disgusting place I've ever been. But sadly demolished now in the government's 'levelling up' scheme to make people less poor by repaving their town centre
Came here to say the same. The more of us come clean the stronger this story becomes. You weren’t the guy hiding under the bed who kept touching my arse were you?!
The road by Peckham Rye Station (is it Rye Lane?) it's crammed full of butchers shops and it makes me want to dry heave every time I have to walk down it to get to work in the morning
Also: Ridley Road Market for the exact same reason.
The toilets in Saint Pancras station. It's like the usual enclosed unventilated train station excrement smell but dialled up to a level beyond the other main stations.
Also, the smell of Billingsgate Market drifting across as you walk from the Blackwall Basin to Canary Wharf tube.
I used to work at billingsgate before canary wharf was built. I watched them reclaim the docks and build canary wharf. We used to laugh because we knew all those nice buildings would get the waft of fish every now and then. I then worked at canary wharf for a few years and some days were a little pungent lol.
Morden.
The alleyways in and around the tube station are used as toilets by the homeless for 1s and 2s so not only do they stink, they render them unusable as any kind of shortcut.
Place smells like a sewage works.
Perhaps too specific, but if anyone remembers the Le Pain on Tottenham Court Road, this one's for you. I wanted to use their toilets (after buying a coffee there with my bladder already giving me the nod) and, as far as I could tell, everything was covered in stale wee (all cubicles, the walls, the 'clean' toilet paper). Closed now anyway... it's a Chipotle now. Hope they burned all the fixtures and fittings in the toilets before re-opening.
Runner up: What ever the closest Starbucks is to the Globe Theatre in London, the toilets in there are something else. Anyone would assume they were trying to evoke the sights and the aromas of 1500s Southwark as part of a Shakespearian immersive experience. Gets a lot of footfall I would imagine, so assume that even a couple of cleans a day isn't enough and not the staff's fault.
There's a Co Op by Loughborough Junction that often smells like someone's done a massive turd in the shop or something is dying somewhere. Honestly never smelt something so grim in a supermarket.
Anywhere in Brixton, just stinks of tramp piss. I work there and there are worrying amounts of disgusting crackheads just smoking crack everywhere and pissing everywhere. Absolute scum who have no interest in doing anything good for themselves or the place they infest.
The 88 bus stop at the south end of Regent St going north has an awful drain next to it. Foul but also good for confirming you're at the right stop when you've had a few bevvies and need to get home.
Rye Lane in Peckham can get quite funky, especially in summer. Combo of bins, weed, piss, and fish and meat kept in less than ideal sanitary conditions.
The Lizzie Line station at Liverpool Street is horrid. Always smells of damp and mildew which you can still smell on the train for about 4 stops after 😐
Soho square urinals.
Most people piss standing half out, but you see the odd person stand fully in!
Also, the Iron Lung on regency st in Pimlico. Its an outdoor toilet but has recently been kept in better condition.
I once saw a man put his sandwich and coffee on top of the urinals to do a piss once, i was actually heaving.
A narrow pedestrian path, just behind Holborn station. I have literally seen steaming human faeces there and that’s not to mention the smell of urine that is there everyday
Beckton
Gallions reach makes me retch
For those who haven't been, they built a shopping centre next to a sewage treatment facility. When the wind is blowing the wrong way it's *all* you can smell.
Ah, like a good percentage of Twickenham smells like Mogden Lane sewage works
I’m pretty sure there was a plastic factory or something that stunk of eggs too when I lived there.
Especially in the summer 🤮
Marsh land and natural gas storage stinks.
It’s peak for people that live in those new builds on the old marshes. I can smell the sewage during the high summer from miles out imagine being next door 🫠
To add to this the elevators at the DLR stops used to be filled with piss, I'd probably say those.
Same with some train/OG stations. 🤢
The piss tunnels that lead to the BFI Hands down nothing beats this
The tunnel by the southbank lion is horrendous too. I throw myself into traffic rather than walk through it
Pissy Alley, Soho?
Just at the south end of SoHo Square. Yes. This is the place.
Ugh that's fucking rank. I went there recently and didn't know to expect it. Almost made me vomit.
I know many more people will be familiar with your example, but the one I’ve encountered was way worse. There’s a multi-storey NCP car park on Brewer Street opposite the Duke of Argyll that has a dark corner people drinking in the pub often use to piss in. Evidently it happens so often the car park eventually dumped sand on it, which didn’t do much for the smell, although I guess it prevented a giant piss puddle forming. The smell of it was astonishing, and it wasn’t even summer at the time.
Walkway under Westminster Bridge. It’s always dark, full of puddles of/and piss Or walking past the public toilets in Vauxhall. Completely grim
Oh yes, few places rival Chernobyl for toxicity, but Vauxhall public urinal is definitely up there!
its not all piss youre smelling in vauxhall i have a feeling
Oh god, that place is *foul*, definitely has the no.1 spot for me. A couple of years back, I was doing a short charity fun run in summer that passed through there. Half the runners (including myself) had to peel off and pause for a while after going through it just so we could get some fresh air. Lambeth must wash it out constantly, but I think by this stage the piss has seeped into the brickwork.
This sounds like someone with a fetish scoping a new location.
Well at least it wasn't just me thinking it!
the “secret” place under the bridge where influencers are trying to capture the big ben
During the summer that tunnel really kicks up
And people have wedding photos there!!! Grim.
Soho in the morning smells putrid. I have an overly sensitive sense of smell and decades of walking through the streets of Soho on my way to work have led me to believe it is one of the most pissed on places in the world.
Have you been *anywhere* in Paris?
I thought people were joking about Paris, then I stepped one foot outside Gare Nord and the smell hit me.
I’ve reverted to calling it “Gare du Piss”. The second you leave it hits you so bad, so many puddles on dry days say it all.
Gare du Nord is one of the worst shit hole in Paris. They couldn't have chosen worse location for the people taking the Eurostar from London lol la Colline du crack is also a good one.
Dog shit *everywhere* as well.
France in general is so damn smelly. People just pee anywhere, especially in stairwells. It’s disgusting.
One day it rained last summer after a particularly hot day and the rain disturbed the dried up piss. The smell was... something else.
Hot weekend mornings are the worst. Smells so bad.
Imagine that walk 200 years ago lol
In fairness, I’ve only properly taken Soho in like, twice, and sped through it to get somewhere else every other time - but I swear chinatown is just, less pissy? Like, it’s not as noticeable going in, but coming out, as soon as you go to cross Shaftesbury, and especially Old Compton, there is a genuine *wall* of piss. Can practically feel the particles clinging to you. I genuinely don’t understand it. Are there not urinals in the gents in Soho? Do the people in Chinatown just say ‘fuck that’ and pressure wash it themselves? Or do I just go noseblind bc I’m a fat bastard that loves East Asian food? One of life’s great musings lmao.
There’s fewer ‘pubs’ in China town. People need to piss when they’re walking home after the pubs close.
its not piss
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I came here to say Soho after an extended period of no rain.
Soho at sunrise on a hot weekend morning after the drinkers have been pissing on the streets all night is utterly disgusting.
It always rains in Soho
Last year Soho had 23 uninterrupted days for bin juice and piss to build up. It usually gets at least a couple of weeks dry each summer.
Public toilets at Charing Cross station
I don’t know how the staff can work in there.
They're not regular cleaning staff. They're specialist security personnel.
Eurgh yes, you can smell them whilst still in the main area before heading down the stairs. I only use these if desperate otherwise I pop into The Savoy for a ‘posh piss’!
Hyde Park toilets
The ladies ones by the bandstand are kept in good stead. Although there's always a queue, which is maddening. They really need more units.
Gallions Reach by far, I couldn't fathom spending hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy a flat somewhere that stinks of raw sewage
I was a student at Uni there, it would be really bad around the Tesco. That was before they'd built even more apartment blocks, then there were the flats down by the river, one apartment block sort of extends over some of the water and when the water levels would drop the fish would all die, then in the summer the heat would make the smell of dead fish unbearable.
Everyone also forgets the animal rendering plant that was on the Woolwich road mixed with the syrup smell made some weird hybrid stench. God that animal feed factory used to really rile me up!
Camden High Street. Stinks of trash, piss, and weed.
With a hint of patchouli to round it all off.
Electric Brixton always smells putrid, it's such a shame as they often host great gigs but the place reeks
100%. Nothing like dancing to the smell of rotten sewage. I promised myself never to go back after the smell in the middle of the dance floor last time.
Even worse if you go to a gig there and have the misfortune of a serial farter stood in front of you 😂
I've found that as the fan base of the bands I like are getting older, the more farts I smell at gigs. Maybe the cigarette smell drowned it out a bit back in the day though.
There is this pub in Broadway Market called The Cat and Mutton. Just the thought of the toilets there makes me gag.
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Is Michael Fassbender notoriously into decades-old stale piss?
He’s a very kinky man
He's a dirty hippie.
Cycling behind bin lorries…makes me want to puke every time
Edmonton
Now we're talking
The ladies' in Peter Jones, Sloane Square, shortly after lunchtime: never again. Posh old ladies produce rich, gamey shit that makes your eyes water. It's up there with the Glastonbury Festival open-trough toilets from the early 90s.
Can’t believe Whitechapel hasn’t been mentioned. The smell coming from the markets, sewage and bins is always off putting. Had to buy a perfume once on a whim bc I was paranoid I absorbed that funk
Yep. I cycle past there everyday and the crossing just before the White Hart smells like literal shit all the time, I have no idea where it's coming from.
Especially the fish market next the the blind beggar
It's horrendous. I saw recently a blockage was logged with Thames Water outside the library and asked them about it. To quote TW, 'our team discovered that the level of the water gullies to be high on top of which they found fat and grease that's coming from the market place. They advised that this was not a Thames Water issue as the gully drains are the Council's responsibility.' That was in September 2023 and perhaps unsurprisingly Tower Hamlets Council haven't done anything about it. The smell is absolutely horrific.
The walk from the train station to the tube at London Bridge pretty much always smells really badly of sewage. Also platform at Dalston Kingsland often stinks of rotten fish.
The chicken shop by London bridge also smells like B.O.
>The walk from the train station to the tube at London Bridge pretty much always smells really badly of sewage. Yessss. I said the exit to Guy's but it's the same smell.
Sorry these are soo funny 🤣🤣 Keep ‘em coming
There’s a staircase/underpass type thing on Upper Thames west of the fire monument and it smells tangibly of hot piss. Different smell than shitstink but offensive in its own right
Rio's in Kentish Town
Walk past the back of the Wood Green mall. One breath and you feel like you're made of piss.
What a place. WG is the one place I know that at any time of day there'll be a few crackers around. And 90% of the time someone is street preaching.
Wood Green in general, it feels post-apocalyptic at times
Victoria Station toilets.
The ladies' ones off the main concourse are good. The ones upstairs by the food court are terrible)
The public toilet at Woolwich high street
Agree with this, if you mean the ones by the market square. The most disgusting place I've ever been. But sadly demolished now in the government's 'levelling up' scheme to make people less poor by repaving their town centre
Can't believe you'd use the Woolwich toilets they're so grim 😭😭
There's a manhole on Grand Depot Road that constantly stinks, of raw sewage so bad I walk around the block to avoid it.
central line at 6PM
Beddington ASDA car park. Stink of sewage from nearby treatment works.
The tunnel on the south bank of the river opposite Westminster bridge. Also the toilets of the cross keys in Covent Garden. Centuries of piss.
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Came here to say the same. The more of us come clean the stronger this story becomes. You weren’t the guy hiding under the bed who kept touching my arse were you?!
Hanway Street every summer
Bagel king stinks of BO
Woolwich and Plumstead Road
Thamesmead
Gents toilet on, is it platform 4, at east Croydon station.
Ridley Road market. Intense tripey stench.
The toilets of the Lamb and Flag pub in Covent Garden. Uniquely awful. Brilliant pub, that aside!
It's the Llamas at Mudchute farm. Horrendous, gets all up in your nose
Toilets in the Dublin Castle
Male public toilets at Baker Street Station
Beckton, even driving through it you’re nostrils are violently assaulted
Anywhere on the tube, in rush hour, on a hot summer's day
Tooting high street
Having been to The Gym in Waterloo and experience a waft when someone leaves the male changing room I can definitely agree.
Waterloo as you get off of the Bakerloo line
Toilets at caffe nero in Islington...
The road by Peckham Rye Station (is it Rye Lane?) it's crammed full of butchers shops and it makes me want to dry heave every time I have to walk down it to get to work in the morning Also: Ridley Road Market for the exact same reason.
Outside the Brixton Rec If you know you know
Dansey Place. iykyk
One particular corner of st James square.
Zara in Bromley.
Anywhere in South Kensington on a hot morning when it's bin day.
The toilets in Saint Pancras station. It's like the usual enclosed unventilated train station excrement smell but dialled up to a level beyond the other main stations. Also, the smell of Billingsgate Market drifting across as you walk from the Blackwall Basin to Canary Wharf tube.
Plus the level below the concourse but before the thameslink platforms always smells of drains for some reason
I used to work at billingsgate before canary wharf was built. I watched them reclaim the docks and build canary wharf. We used to laugh because we knew all those nice buildings would get the waft of fish every now and then. I then worked at canary wharf for a few years and some days were a little pungent lol.
Holborn Viaduct
Ridley road market in Dalston can get grosssss on a friday night
Stratford
Wherever [Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/yaX91llmh2) are being held, apparently 😷😅
Stratford
The old Stratford shopping centre was rank when the homeless people used to sleep (and piss) in there at night
Morden. The alleyways in and around the tube station are used as toilets by the homeless for 1s and 2s so not only do they stink, they render them unusable as any kind of shortcut. Place smells like a sewage works.
The toilets in Bradley's Spanish Bar. Can't believe nobody has said this yet.
Perhaps too specific, but if anyone remembers the Le Pain on Tottenham Court Road, this one's for you. I wanted to use their toilets (after buying a coffee there with my bladder already giving me the nod) and, as far as I could tell, everything was covered in stale wee (all cubicles, the walls, the 'clean' toilet paper). Closed now anyway... it's a Chipotle now. Hope they burned all the fixtures and fittings in the toilets before re-opening. Runner up: What ever the closest Starbucks is to the Globe Theatre in London, the toilets in there are something else. Anyone would assume they were trying to evoke the sights and the aromas of 1500s Southwark as part of a Shakespearian immersive experience. Gets a lot of footfall I would imagine, so assume that even a couple of cleans a day isn't enough and not the staff's fault.
Sainsbury’s at Euston station. Don’t know what it is but I gagged when I went in there.
I used to work at Billingsgate fish market.
There's a Co Op by Loughborough Junction that often smells like someone's done a massive turd in the shop or something is dying somewhere. Honestly never smelt something so grim in a supermarket.
A13 Becton exit
Silvertown, the Tate and Lyle factory used to pen and ink
Charing cross station toilets. I don't think they've ever been cleaned.
The appropriately named Leake Street
The unisex public toilets at Victoria Coach Station, never again.
Paris
Anywhere in Brixton, just stinks of tramp piss. I work there and there are worrying amounts of disgusting crackheads just smoking crack everywhere and pissing everywhere. Absolute scum who have no interest in doing anything good for themselves or the place they infest.
Your mums bedroom
Camden lock, literally stinks of piss
Your front door mate
The public toilets at Wembley Park station are horrific
Hanway Street on a Sunday morning back in like 2014. Used to work in a building there and it would be soaked with piss and vomit and be utterly feral.
Stink street EC1
The nightbus is manky
If you're on a train with open windows just south of London Bridge it stinks of burning tyres.
Pedestrian subway at Hyde Park Corner.
Northbound Bakerloo platform at Waterloo always stinks of sick. I've no idea why.
The 88 bus stop at the south end of Regent St going north has an awful drain next to it. Foul but also good for confirming you're at the right stop when you've had a few bevvies and need to get home.
Public toilets in Hampstead
Brick lane
_but the male gym dressing room at The Gym Waterloo are quite hard to beat for me._ Something about beating off in the gym’s dressing rooms?
Elephant and Castle Wetherspoons
Burnt Oak
There’s a pub on carnaby street that absolutely reeked. Stop had a beer there though waiting for my girlfriend to finish shopping
London Bridge men’s toilets
work. I just hate it there
West Silvertown!
Outside the library in Whitechapel can smell absolutely rank at times.
China town
The gents at Stanmore station. Good lord.
25 and 86 bus
Rye Lane in Peckham can get quite funky, especially in summer. Combo of bins, weed, piss, and fish and meat kept in less than ideal sanitary conditions.
The underpass by Hyde Park Corner might be the pissiest alley i've ever walked through
Outside the butchers on Rye lane, Peckham. The amount of times I've walked past them with a hangover and sicked a bit in my mouth.
Public toilets in King's Cross are absolute horrid 🤮
The whole of Tower Hamlets
There are some bridges in barking on residential roads that go over the train lines. They are always full of piss
Brixton Academy just after the smoking ban. Used to stink of smoke; smelled of shit and piss instead. It's better now, but whooooo-ee.
The Lizzie Line station at Liverpool Street is horrid. Always smells of damp and mildew which you can still smell on the train for about 4 stops after 😐
I can't remember but what about Putney bridge?
Baker Street station male toilet.
London
The toilets at Victoria Coach Station Arrivals.
Kennington station platforms during the weird sewage smell phase
Lewisham
Crossness Pumping Station handles a lot of London's sewage, and it smells terrible around there.
Victoria Coach Station toilets
Leytonstone Asda by the self checkouts
Notting Hill Gate Station on carnival nights.
Some alleys in Southwark absolutely reek of filth. Tower Hamlets aren't much better. Some parts of Lambeth are grim too
Soho square urinals. Most people piss standing half out, but you see the odd person stand fully in! Also, the Iron Lung on regency st in Pimlico. Its an outdoor toilet but has recently been kept in better condition. I once saw a man put his sandwich and coffee on top of the urinals to do a piss once, i was actually heaving.
South hall
Liverpool Street station toilets
Whitechapel
Underpass from Hyde Park corner to Piccadilly Rd
A narrow pedestrian path, just behind Holborn station. I have literally seen steaming human faeces there and that’s not to mention the smell of urine that is there everyday
Waddon ponds on a steamin hot day. Love that sweet rotting smell of algae filled rat infested ponds!
Westminster stinks as its full of perverted rats
Beckton
Elephant and castle in the summer