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So, as someone who's passed rotting carcasses on a semi-regular basis before, if it's just something like one body decomposing on the wayside the smell will not even linger for a month, never mind anything close to a year. Even when it's a pretty large 'body', such as a cow.
So either there's a constant fresh supply of rotting carcass there, or it's some chemical released somewhere that just smells like it.
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I think I posted here about this some time back. Most people I talk to, like @mattioats, think I'm talking about smells from the incinerator, or perhaps one of the 'waste' companies around there. But no, it's very definitely the smell if a rotting carcass, and it's been like that for almost a year, just near where the Q1 passes underneath South Bermondsey station. A while back I started to worry it was a human body (I'd been working on a harrowing TV job about murders and bodies being found and stuff), so I reported it to Police. Someone went down there that day, I tried to describe accurately where I think it is emanating from, which is a bank of scrub behind a very high wire fence. I reckon the police couldn't smell it (some days it's definitely worse than others) or investigate further (like, behind the fence!) cos they didn't contact me again and the smell persists. Actually, in recent months it's gone from rotting tissue to a more boney, sinewy smell (think a bucket of rancid Copydex type of aroma).
It constantly bothers me when I ride there that something really fucking gruesome is in that undergrowth.