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Sound recordings featuring Chelsea, Battersea and Clapham

Grosvenor Waterside fountain. Location: By the Grosvenor canal inside the Grosvenor Waterside private housing complex, Pimlico. Description: Loud, rapid clatter of a fountain where thin sheets of water fall a short distance into a stone trough. Duration: 1:40. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 6 August 2015. Time of day: 2.50pm.

Mouth of the Westbourne. Location: Inside the mouth of the Westbourne river, Chelsea Embankment. Description: Faint trickling sound of water from beneath one of the two floodgates inside the Westbourne's tunnel, airplane noise, traffic, brief cries from a gull. Duration: 2:30. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 6 August 2015. Time of day: 2.15pm.

Chelsea Harbour. Location: East side of Chelsea Harbour. Description: Distant traffic, creaking of boats' rigging as they drift slightly at the moorings, airplane and helicopter drone, faint voices, an electric bell rings, the wind stirs nearby foliage. Duration: 3:30. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 July 2015. Time of day: 1pm.

Battersea Park fountain. Location: Batterses Park. Description: Peter writes: "Battersea Park, fountains and aircraft. Initially all fountains operating, then the main bank, to my right, switches off and aircraft passes overhead." Duration: 1:30. Recorded by: Peter Jeffels. Recording date: 21 September 2012. Time of day: 3.30pm.

Queenstown Road station. Location: Queenstown Road railway station, Battersea. Description: Traffic, airplane drone, a recorded platform announcement, a train passes at high speed, faint music from a nearby house. Duration: 1:20. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 1 April 2012. Time of day: 3.30pm.

Battersea Park. Location: By the lake in Battersea Park, south London. Description: Loud airplane drone, birdsong and calls of waterfowl, splashes, a cyclist passes by, a faint siren in the distance. Duration: 5:30. Recorded by: Sam Appleby. Recording date: Unknown. Time of day: Early morning.

Clapham Junction walkway. Location: Walking northwards along the covered inter-platform walkway at Clapham Junction station. Description: Voices and footsteps, two men run past to catch a train, grinding sounds of train wheels, faint aeroplane drone, station announcements over speakers. Duration: 3:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 15 May 2011. Time of day: 6pm.

Nine Elms Sunday market. Location: Nine Elms Sunday market, Vauxhall. Description: Busy market atmosphere with voices of market-goers and stallholders, loud recorded music, growing quieter in an indoor part of the market towards the end. Duration: 4:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 May 2011. Time of day: Noon.

Car boot sale Battersea. Location: Car boot sale off Battersea Bridge Road, south-west London. Description: General hustle and bustle of the boot sale, humming from a snack bar's generator, voices of stallholders and customers. Duration: 1:40. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 25 April 2010. Time of day: 2.30pm.

Roadside snack bar Battersea. Location: Snack bar on Queenstown Road by Battersea Bridge. Description: Voice of the snack bar owner, sizzling of food being cooked on a griddle, clattering of kitchen utensils, traffic passing by on Queenstown Road. Duration: 1:39. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 6 February 2010. Time of day: 10.45pm.

TQ 2835 7688. Location: OS grid reference TQ 2835 7688. Prince of Wales Drive, near the junction with Macduff Road, overlooking Battersea Park. Description: Vehicles pass along Prince of Wales Drive, a resident nearby slams shut the door to a block of mansion flats, the traffic dies down, allowing the voices of children and adults from the park to be heard, along with birdsong and the drone of a distant motorbike. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 30 May 2009. Time of day: 5.00pm.

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