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Grosvenor Road TW1 December. Location: Pathway running westwards from Grosvenor Road, Twickenham. Description: Airplane drone, a train horn sounds, birdsong, distant traffic, the wind stirs nearby foliage, a pedestrian passes by with a wheeled shopping trolley, the clatter of a train. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 1.35pm.
Sherland Road TW1 December. Location: Sherland Road near junction with Station Road West, Twickenham. Description: Distant traffic, sounds of desultory building activity, faint voices, airplane drone, footsteps. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 1.50pm.
Clifden Road TW1 December. Location: Halfway along Clifden Road, Twickenham. Description: Distant traffic, faint sounds from a passing train, two cars drive past, birdsong, intermittent noise of building work in mid-distance, voices and clapping of children from a school opposite. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 2.05pm.
Tudor Gardens TW1 December. Location: Tudor Gardens off Clifden Road, Twickenham. Description: Distant traffic, a crow caws, faint birdsong, faint noise of some kind of power tool, contact calls of parakeets, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 2.10pm.
Heath Road TW1 December. Location: Heath Road, Twickenham. Description: Loud traffic passing close by, beeps of a reversing lorry, faint footsteps, a car door slams. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 2.20pm.
Wharf Lane TW1 December. Location: East side of Wharf Lane, Twickenham. Description: Distant traffic, faint calls of jackdaws, distant cawing of crows, birdsong, a car door slams, footsteps, airplane drone, a car drives past, voices of passersby. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 2.30pm.
Cornwall Road TW1 December. Location: North end of Cornwall Road, Twickenham. Description: Faint rattle of a jackhammer, distant traffic, faint birdsong, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 2.40pm.
York House tennis courts TW1 December. Location: By the tennis courts to the east of York House, Twickenham. Description: Distant traffic, a dog barks, cooing of woodpigeons, faint birdsong, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 2.50pm.
York House Gardens TW1 December. Location: In York House Gardens immediately south of York House off Richmond Road, Twickenham. Description: Constant trickling from a nearby water feature, distant traffic, birdsong, a dog's faint yapping, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 2.55pm.
Lebanon Park TW1 December. Location: Halfway along the northern part of Lebanon Park, Twickenham. Description: Distant traffic, patter of raindrops on nearby foliage, contact calls of parakeets, a crow caws, faint airplane drone, cooing of a woodpigeon. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 3pm.
Orleans Road TW1 December. Location: Towards southern end of Orleans Road, Twickenham. Description: Distant traffic, cries of children from a school playground, birdsong, a power tool in the mid-distance, contact calls of parakeets, a woman's voice heard indistinctly then growing louder, footsteps, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 3,20pm.
Thames path Marble Hill December. Location: On the Thames path at Marble Hill Park near Hammerton's Ferry, Twickenham. Description: Contact calls of ring-necked parakeets, distant traffic, a car starts and drives off in the mid-distance, faint birdsong, footsteps, brief yapping of one dog and sustained whining of another, the wind stirs foliage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 3.30pm.
Marble Hill Park north TW1 December. Location: North side of Marble Hill Park, around 100 years south of Richmond Road, Twickenham. Description: Traffic on Richmond Road, contact calls of parakeets, airplane drone, a dog barks, distant cries of children. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 3.40pm.
Cresswell Road TW1 December. Location: Towards southern end of Cresswell Road, Twickenham. Description: A lorry drives past, sawing and other sounds from building work on a house, faint chatter of a magpie, airplane drone, distant traffic, a crow caws. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 3.50pm.
Willoughby Road TW1 December. Location: Willoughby Road, Twickenham. Description: Birdsong, light aircraft drone, constant traffic in distance, footsteps of passersby, contact calls of ring-necked parakeets, a child's voice and faint adult voices heard briefly. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 3.55pm.
Park Road TW1 December. Location: Park Road near junction with Ducks Walk, Twickenham. Description: Airplane drone, faint birdsong, voices and desultory activity from a nearby building site, the noise of an electric brick hoist, footsteps close by. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 4.05pm.
Park House Gardens TW1 December. Location: Towards eastern end of Park House Gardens, Twickenham. Description: Airplane drone, birdsong, distant traffic, repeated alarm call of a blackbird, a resident leaves their house nearby. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 4.10pm.
Ravensbourne Road TW1 December. Location: Junction of Ravensbourne Road and Ellesmere Road, Twickenham. Description: Emergency services sirens in distance, birdsong, voices of a passing mother and her children, a car door slams in the street, distant traffic, indistinct noise of a power tool which stops, faint airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 December 2015. Time of day: 4.15pm.
Clevedon Road TW1 May. Location: Facing the tennis courts on Clevedon Road, Twickenham. Description: A young child cries, constant traffic in distance, sounds of a group of players packing up on the tennis courts, loud airplane drone, faint bird calls, indistinct voices. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 3.45pm.
Thames towpath TW1 May. Location: On the Thames towpath immediately south of the junction with the Cambridge Park footpath, Twickenham. Description: Airplane drone, constant traffic crossing Richmond Bridge, a bird sings nearby, faint calls of a coot, passing cyclists, the wind stirs foliage, calls of jackdaws. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 3.45pm.
Roseleigh Close TW1 May. Location: Roseleigh Close off Cambridge Park, Twickenham. Description: Loud airplane drone, birdsong, a householder sands his home's front door. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 3.40pm.
Marble Hill Park TW1 May. Location: Midway along the main path which runs from north to south through Marble Hill Park, Twickenham. Description: Birdsong, faint voices in the distance, loud airplane drone, a dog barks. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 3.25pm.
St Stephens Gardens TW1 May. Location: Halfway along St Stephen's Gardens, Twickenham. Description: Constant traffic in distance, faint birdsong, faint sounds of desultory activity in the street, brief sound of a power tool in the mid-distance, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 3pm.
Orleans Road TW1 May. Location: Towards northern end of Orleans Road, Twickenham. Description: Constant traffic on Richmond Road, voices and chanting of children from a nearby school, a woodpigeon coos, sounds of desultory activity from a group of workmen to the south on Orleans Road. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 2.50pm.
Leeson House TW1 May. Location: Behind Leeson House flats off Haggard Road, Twickenham. Description: Constant traffic on Richmond Road, a baby cries in a nearby flat, a woman's faint voice, birdsong, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 2.40pm.
Victoria Road TW1 May. Location: Towards southern end of Victoria Road, Twickenham. Description: Birdsong, children's voices in distance, airplane drone, a distant mechanical or electrical hum, the wind stirs nearby foliage, footsteps of a passerby, scrape of a wheeled suitcase, a woman's indistinct laughter towards end. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 2.35pm.
Strafford Road TW1 May. Location: Strafford Road near junction with Haggard Road, Twickenham. Description: Occasional passing vehicles, footsteps, a constant mechanical or electrical hum, faint birdsong, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 2.30pm.
Cheltenham Avenue TW1 May. Location: Halfway along Cheltenham Avenue, Twickenham. Description: Voices in mid-distance of children in a school playground, a car passes by slowly and sounds it horn before it comes to a halt and its driver gets out, distant traffic. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 2.25pm.
Arragon Road TW1 May. Location: Arragon Road near junction with London Road, Twickenham. Description: Men unload a delivery lorry nearby, voices of passersby, constant traffic on London Road and Arragon Road. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2015. Time of day: 2.15pm.
Riverside TW1 July. Location: Outside the White Swan pub, Riverside, Twickenham, south-west London. Description: Voices of pub-goers sitting outside, calls of waterfowl, clink of glass and cutlery, two cars and a cyclist go slowly past. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 3.10pm.
Holly Road Gardens TW1 July. Location: Twickenham, south-west London. Description: A tree surgeon cuts down a small tree nearby with a chainsaw, then cuts the trunk into manageable lengths. A crow caws, faint voices. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 2.25pm.
Queens Road TW1 July. Location: Queens Road, Twickenham, south-west London. Description: Faint voices and birdsong in a quiet residential street, noise of a chainsaw in the distance, a car passes, airplane drone, the wind stirs nearby bushes and trees. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 2.35pm.
Church Street TW1 July. Location: Church Street, Twickenham, south-west London. Description: A child's voice, footsteps of passersby, voices and clatter of cutlery from nearby restaurants, a van turns into the narrow street, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 2.40pm.
Eel Pie Island July. Location: On a footpath on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, south-west London. Description: The wind rustles nearby foliage, voices and hammering sounds from a house being built or renovated, a resident walks out of a door in a fence and away down the path. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 2.55pm.
Marble Hill Park July. Location: Middle of Marble Hill Park, Twickenham, south-west London. Description: Loud airplane drone, calls of jays and other birdsong, voices in the mid-distance, the wind rustles leaves in nearby trees. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 3.20pm.
Vivienne Close TW1 July. Location: Off Cambridge Park, Twickenham, south-west London. Description: Quiet residential street with occasional cars and people passing by, airplane drone, the wind rustles leaves in nearby trees. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 4pm.
Richmond Road TW1 July. Location: Richmond Road opposite junction with Cresswell Road, south-west London. Description: Loud, constant traffic passing along Richmond Road, music heard briefly from a car, another car pulls up and parks opposite. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 4.10pm.
Old House Gardens TW1 July. Location: Off Park Road, Twickenham, south-west London. Description: Quiet residential street with distant traffic and siren, slamming of a car door and faint desultory activity nearby. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 9 July 2013. Time of day: 4.20pm.
Thames path Richmond. Location: Thames path at Richmond, facing Cambridge Gardens. Description: Busy scene recorded while sitting on the river's edge. Cyclists and pedestrians pass by on the path behind, an airplane flies overhead, activity on a pontoon in the river, sound of the river lapping. Duration: 5:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 1 April 2012. Time of day: 12.30pm.
Teddington weir. Location: On the Thames path near Teddington weir, south-west London. Description: Constant rushing of water from the weir, a siren is heard briefly, honking of a Canada goose. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 30 April 2010. Time of day: 4pm.
TQ 1647 7309. Location: OS reference TQ 1647 7309. By the footbridge leading onto Eel Pie Island. Description: People feed ducks, geese and pigeons at the Eel Pie Island footbridge on the Thames side. A feeding frenzy is under way among the birds. A van pulls away and a crow caws loudly from its pulpit on the footbridge's handrail. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 18 February 2009. Time of day: 12.30pm.
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