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Lovely atmospheric pic.

Suspect those tanners weren't tanning at those particular addresses, Jo Anne.

Mind you, there were enough slaughterhouses in the town centre to create a stink.

I just get the notion, particularly from the way Guy Martin reminded us how Tanners were shunned, that such activities would have happened on the outskirts of town.

Admittedly, they wouldn't have been using dog muck in the more recent years, instead using chemicals.

But, I have been told that tanneries are/were nasty flyblown places, even in recent years. (late 20th Century)