| Comment | That's weird. I just mentioned the sugarolly mountains in a post on here a few days ago.
Comes from sugarolly water, which was a homemade drink made by mixing liquorice with water (or lemonade).
I imagine the waste mounds got their name by either having a smell similar to liquorice or because they in some how looked like liquorice. The latter is the more probable, because they were a weird grey colour with big black streaks.
The sugarollys were covered and built over by the Cranhill high flats, but the waste existed in the area for donkeys years afterwards. I remember as late as the late 90's there were a few spots around Cranhill that had this think, waterproof, slippery, sludgey coating that just would not be shifted. Rain didn't dissolve it. If we got it on our clothes the clothes were fucked as you just couldn't wash it back out. The patches of slime where a permanent feature until the most recent rounds of demolition and rebuild. I imagine if you took a spade to the grass near the high flats and dug a few feet it wouldn't take long to find some. |
|---|