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Sound recordings featuring Carshalton and Hackbridge

Cottage cafe Beddington. Location: Inside the Cottage Cafe, Beddington Farm Road, south London. Description: Noisy cafe interior with customers talking, loud music from a radio, noises of food being prepared. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 1 July 2014. Time of day: 12 noon..

Beddington Corner east. Location: Inside Beddington Farm sewage works/nature reserve, east London. Description: Loud clatter and noise of earthmovers at work, birdsong all around, cawing of crows, a train passes in the mid-distance. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 26 June 2014. Time of day: 11.55am.

Beddington Corner south. Location: Footpath on west side of Beddington Farm, south London. Description: Loud birdsong, cawing of crows, stridulation of grasshoppers, loud airplane drone, distant noise of earthmovers. Duration: 3:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 26 June 2014. Time of day: 11.15am.

Go kart track Mitcham Common. Location: Go-kart track off Jessops Way, south London. Description: Noise of go-karts as they circle the track, the wind stirs nearby foliage. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 26 June 2014. Time of day: 12.35pm.

Hand car wash Beddington Lane. Location: Beddington Lane near junction with Beddington Cross, south London Description: Voices of car wash staff, loud hiss of pressure washers, passing traffic, noises of compressor and drying unit. Duration: 4:40. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 27 June 2014. Time of day: 11.25am.

Landfill site Beddington Farm. Location: Immediately west of the Beddington Farm landfill site, south London. Description: Clatter and rumble of earthmovers working on the landfill site, calls of crows and jackdaws, the wind stirs nearby foliage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 26 June 2014. Time of day: 12.10pm.

Manhole cover Beddington gravel works. Location: Abandoned gravel works near Beddington Farm, south London. Description: Hissing noises and a hollow rumbling emanate from beneath a manhole cover, sound of earthmovers in the distance. Duration: 1:50. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 26 June 2014. Time of day: 11am.

Railway footbridge Mitcham Common. Location: Footbridge due east of Mitcham Junction station, south London. Description: Birdsong all around, distant traffic and sounds of industrial activity, airplane drone, faint sound of a passing train. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: M Rawes. Recording date: 26 June 2014. Time of day: 10.45am.

Therapia Lane footpath. Location: Footpath between Therapia Lane and Endeavour Way, south London. Description: Constant banging and noise of heavy machinery in operation all around, the wind stirs rubbish along the footpath, a van door slams, indistinct voices. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 1 July 2014. Time of day: 11.25am.

Therapia Lane stream. Location: Therapia Lane at junction with Beddington Lane, south London. Description: Trickling of a small stream at the point where it disappears under the road, passing traffic on Beddington Lane. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 1 July 2014. Time of day: 11.15am.

Tramsheds industrial estate Coomber Way. Location: Coomber Way off Beddington Lane, south London. Description: Loud noise of lorries and other traffic passing close by, a repetitive banging in the mid-distance, intermittent noise of metal being sawed. Duration: 1:55. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 26 June 2014. Time of day: 1.35pm.

Unnamed watercourse Beddington Corner. Location: Beddington Corner, south London. Description: Trickling, rushing sounds from a culverted watercourse, distant traffic rumble in background, faint airplane drone, a train passes. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 26 June 2014. Time of day: 11.34am.

The Wandle Church Paddock. Location: Overgrown land accessed by a hole in a fence behind Church Paddock Court, Beddington. Description: Stridulation of grasshoppers close by, faint rushing sound of the Wandle, a dog barks, distant traffic. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 5 August 2011. Time of day: 4.15pm.

The Wandle Beddington Park. Location: On the footbridge spanning the lake in Beddington Park. Description: Constant traffic in the distance, birdsong and calls of ducks, faint voices and laughter. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 5 August 2011. Time of day: 4pm.

The Wandle Grove Park. Location: Carshalton Ponds, Grove Park. Description: Loud traffic at junction of North Street and High Street, voices of adults and children in the park, flapping of birds' wings. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 5 August 2011. Time of day: 3.25pm.

The Wandle Wilderness Island. Location: Wilderness Island nature reserve, Hackbridge. Description: Quiet ambience with distant traffic and siren, hammering on a building site, faint birdsong, a light breeze stirs foliage. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 5 August 2011. Time of day: 3pm.

The Wandle Budge Lane. Location: By Budge Lane, Hackbridge. Description: The Wandle flows out of a narrow tunnel, banging and clattering noises from the Wandle Trading Estate nearby. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 5 August 2011. Time of day: 2.30pm.

The Wandle near Wates Way. Location: By the river Wandle opposite Wates Way industrial estate, Mitcham Junction. Description: Rush of water from a small tributary of the Wandle, birdsong, cooing of wood pigeon, distant traffic. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 May 2011. Time of day: 4pm.

River Wandle. Location: A weir on the River Wandle north of Hackbridge Road. Description: A continuous rushing noise as the Wandle jumps down in a wide glassy arc from a weir. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 22 April 2009. Time of day: 3pm.

TQ 2835 6551. Location: North end of the Wilderness Island nature reserve. Description: Faint birdsong and crackles of twigs and leaves in the surrounding undergrowth. To the north, a continuous rushing sound from a weir on the River Wandle. A train passes along a railway viaduct to the south. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 22 April 2009. Time of day: 3.15pm.

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