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Hendon Road N9 June. Location: Halfway along Hendon Road, north London. Description: A dog barks, noise of a power saw, children's voices, airplane drone, faint birdsong, distant traffic, sounds of desultory activity in the street. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 3.15pm.
Bounces Lane N9 June. Location: Towards south end of Bounces Lane, north London. Description: Distant traffic, birdsong, a child's voice from inside a flat, intermittent sound of a nail gun in the mid-distance, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 3.05pm.
Cornwallis Road N9 June. Location: Halfway along Cornwallis Road, north London. Description: Distant traffic, slamming of car doors, footsteps and voices of passersby, airplane drone, a heavy object is dragged across the pavement, faint birdsong, a dog barks, music from a radio in a house, occasional passing vehicles. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 2.25pm.
Bath Road N9 June. Location: Bath Road near junction with Exeter Road, north London. Description: Constant traffic in distance, children's voices, occasional vehicles passing closer by along Bath Road and Exeter Road, faint airplane drone, a man speaks into a mobile phone on the other side of the road. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 2.15pm.
Lee Park Way south June. Location: Lee Park Way near the ward boundary, parallel with the south end of the William Girling reservoir, north London. Description: Constant noise of industrial machinery, birdsong, cawing of crows, faint sound of coronal discharge from power lines, occasional bangs and thumps in the distance. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 1.40pm.
Lee Park Way north June. Location: North end of Lee Park Way near junction with Picketts Lock Lane, north London. Description: Distant traffic, buzz of coronal discharge from an electricity pylon, birdsong, intermittent noises and indistinct voices from a nearby council depot, the wind stirs foliage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 1.25pm.
Picketts Lock Lane bridge N9 June. Location: Picketts Lock Lane where it crosses the railway line, north London. Description: Loud constant traffic on Meridian Way, birdsong close by, a deep continuous hum possibly from overhead railway power lines. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 1.05pm.
Kariba Close N9 June. Location: East end of Kariba Close, north London. Description: Distant traffic, a man and a woman talk as they walk from a nearby house, faint music from a radio heard briefly, distant banging noises from an industrial estate, an indistinct sound from a radio heard towards the end. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 12.50pm.
St Malo Avenue N9 June. Location: South end of St Malo Avenue, north London. Description: A woodpigeon coos, birdsong, a distant traffic, airplane drone, a woman's voice heard intermittently, faint sounds of activity in the street, a car approaches slowly playing music. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 12.40pm.
Town Road N9 June. Location: Town Road near junction with Westoe Road, north London. Description: Nearby traffic, voices and footsteps of passersby, a car sounds its horn, a bus slows before turning a corner. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 June 2015. Time of day: 12.30pm.
Edmonton Green shopping centre. Location: Inside Edmonton Green shopping centre, north-east London. Description: Noisy, reverberant interior recorded while sitting on a bench. Voices and footsteps of shoppers, piped music. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 July 2013. Time of day: 1.45pm.
Ardra Road N9 July. Location: Ardra Road, Edmonton, north-east London. Description: Humming and other sounds from surrounding factories and other workplaces, birdsong, a lorry parked nearby starts its engine. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 July 2013. Time of day: 1:10pm.
Picketts Lock Lane N9 July. Location: By the entrance to Deephams sewage works, Edmonton, north-east London. Description: Traffic passing along Picketts Lock Lane and Meridian Way, the wind blows fallen leaves along the ground, faint humming noise from the sewage works, aircraft drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 July 2013. Time of day: 1pm.
Balham Road N9 July. Location: Balham Road near junction with Kingston Road, Edmonton, north-east London. Description: The doors of a nearby car are slammed, voices and desultory activity in a nearby car-wash lot, distant traffic, a woman walks past pushing a pram, background traffic. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 8 July 2013. Time of day: 11.50am.
River Lea Lee Valley Park. Location: By Lee Valley Park, facing the refuse plant off Ash Wharf, north London. Description: Cawing of crows in nearby trees, loud metallic banging sounds from a refuse plant, other industrial noises. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 6 January 2012. Time of day: 1.45pm.
River Lea Picketts Lock North. Location: Immediately north of Picketts Lock, Lower Edmonton, north London. Description: Loud, constant rushing of water flowing from the Lea into a box-like concrete structure before disappearing underground. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 6 January 2012. Time of day: 2.10pm.
River Lea Picketts Lock South. Location: Immediately south of Picketts Lock, Lower Edmonton, north London. Description: Water bubbles out of a buried pipe into the Lea close by, faint electronic beeping sounds from an industrial estate. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 6 January 2012. Time of day: 2pm.
Summer wind Tottenham Marshes. Location: Tottenham Marshes, north-east London. Description: Grasshoppers rasp in tall grass around, sound of a blustery late afternoon wind, distant traffic. Duration: 1:36. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 July 2010. Time of day: 6.30pm.
Under Watermead Way. Location: In a rubbish-strewn space beneath Watermead Way dual carriageway, north-east London. Description: Traffic noise, occasional thumps as vehicles pass overhead along Watermead Way. Pigeons roosting on ledges coo and flap their wings. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 18 July 2010. Time of day: 11am.
Stonebridge Lock. Location: Stonebridge Lock on the River Lea, at Tottenham Marshes, north-east London. Description: Loud, discordant squealing as a barge-owner operates the winding gear on Stonebridge Lock. Voices of onlookers, distant traffic. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 18 July 2010. Time of day: 4pm.
TQ 3627 9205. Location: OS reference TQ 3627 9205. A track running north from Harbet Road, alongside the River Lea aquaduct. Description: Recording made under a tree, its trunk used as a wind-break. Constant mass traffic noise from the North Circular junction with Hall Lane. A bird cries briefly and the breeze rustles leaf litter on the ground. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 20 March 2009. Time of day: 5.40pm.
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