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DAYTIME SOUNDMAP RECORDINGS

Sound recordings featuring Pinner and Rayners Lane

Elm Avenue HA4 June. Location: Elm Avenue, 150 yards west of junction with Field End Lane, north-west London. Description: Traffic passing close by, distant traffic on Field End Lane, faint birdsong, a cyclist passes, a brief clattering sound in the mid-distance, light airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 1.45pm.

Myrtle Avenue HA4 June. Location: Halfway along Myrtle Avenue, north-west London. Description: Airplane drone, birdsong, distant traffic, sounds of building work in the street including banging and sawing, occasional passing cars, a distant siren. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 1.50pm.

Linden Avenue HA4 June. Location: Linden Avenue near the path leading to the railway footbridge, north-west London. Description: Noise of a hedge strimmer in mid-distance, occasional nearby traffic, a distant emergency services siren, footsteps of a passerby, a ringtone from inside a nearby house, a passing tube train. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 2.05pm.

Southbourne Gardens HA4 June. Location: Short cul-de-sac running north from Southbourne Gardens, north-west London. Description: Distant traffic, occasional vehicles passing along Southbourne Gardens, a very faint beeping from a vehicle reversing, distant hammering, a dog barks, faint airplane drone heard briefly, a car door shuts. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 2.30pm.

Elliott Avenue HA4 June. Location: Elliott Avenue by junction with Forbes Way, north-west London. Description: Sound of several vehicles passing close by in succession, distant traffic, faint birdsong and chatter of a magpie, slamming of a van's doors, two men's voices. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 2.40pm.

Pine Gardens HA4 June. Location: East side of Pine Gardens, north-west London. Description: Sounds of building work from a nearby house, indistinct voices, distant traffic, birdsong, jet and light airplane drone, hammering. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 2.50pm.

Cavendish recreation ground June. Location: South-west corner of Cavendish recreation ground, north-west London. Description: Birdsong, faint voice of a child and its mother, faint distant traffic with siren heard intermittently, a metallic scraping noise in the distance, airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 3pm.

Field End Road HA4 June. Location: Field End Road immediately south of the railway line at Eastcote station, north-west London. Description: Loud traffic passing along Field End Road, a hammering noise heard briefly, indistinct voice of a man, faint voices of women passing by, the chink of a pedestrian's key chain. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 3.20pm.

Woodlands Avenue HA4 June. Location: East end of Woodlands Avenue, north-west London. Description: Noise of road-mending vehicles and machinery, a regular tapping sound in mid-distance, voices of workmen, a car horn sounds briefly Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 3.30pm.

Hillcroft Crescent HA4 June. Location: North end of Hillcroft Crescent, north-west London. Description: Birdsong, distant traffic, faint sound of a vacuum cleaner from a nearby house, faint indistinct voices, airplane drone, sound of some object being shifted by hand in the street, the wind stirs foliage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 4.15pm.

Yeading Brook open space June. Location: Parkland on south side of the Yeading Brook, north of Tollcross Road, north-west London. Description: Distant traffic, shouts of children, birdsong, an occasionally strong breeze stirs foliage, faint airplane drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 4 June 2015. Time of day: 4.45pm.

Outside Eastcote tube station July. Location: Field End Road, Eastcote, north-west London. Description: Loud traffic passing along Field End Road, voices and footsteps of people walking in and out of the station, beep of the ticket barriers, a station announcement over a tannoy. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 3.15pm.

Morford Way HA4 July. Location: Eastcote, north-west London. Description: Distant traffic and aircraft drone, a magpie chatters somewhere in the street, two cars pass close by, a car door slams, faint voices, the wind stirs foliage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 3.40pm.

Oak Grove HA4 July. Location: Near junction with Southbourne Gardens, Eastcote, north-west London. Description: Traffic, distant aircraft drone, birdsong, faint indistinct music, the wind stirs foliage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 3.55pm.

Cavendish Recreation Ground July. Location: Eastcote, north-west London. Description: Voices of cricketers during a match, aircraft drone, birdsong. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 4.05pm.

Bessingby Field bowling green July. Location: Bessinbgy Field, Eastcote, north-west London. Description: Voices of bowls players, clack of bowls hitting each other or the jack, aircraft drone, the wind stirs foliage, birdsong. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 4.15pm.

Queens Walk HA4 July. Location: Queens Walk where it passes over the Yeading Brook, South Ruislip, north-west London. Description: Traffic passing close by on Queens Road, a group of teenagers talk as they hang around on the other side of the road, trickling of the Yeading Brook. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 4.25pm.

Cranmer Close HA4 July. Location: Eastcote, Hillingdon, north-west London. Description: A quiet residential street with faint sounds from nearby houses, distant traffic rumble, a resident begins sawing logs outside his garage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 4.45pm.

Windermere Avenue HA4 July. Location: Eastcote, Hillingdon, north-west London. Description: Voices of pedestrians, faint chime of an ice cream van, occasional traffic, calls of fledgling pigeons nearby, a TV or radio plays in a nearby house, a train passes. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 5pm.

Queens Head Pinner. Location: The Queens Head pub, High Street, Pinner, north-west London. Description: The pub is busy on a Sunday lunchtime: customers' voices and noises from the open door of the pub's kitchen. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 15 November 2009. Time of day: Around 1pm.

River Pinn. Location: By the River Pinn as it runs through a field just north of Nower Hill. Description: Trickling sounds from the River Pinn, itself no more than a shallow, gravel-bottomed stream about six feet wide. Faint birdsong, the wind rustling foliage, distant traffic noise from the A404. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 15 November 2009. Time of day: 3.15pm.

TQ 1250 8826. Location: OS reference TQ 1250 8826. Junction of Dewsbury Close and Church Avenue. Description: A quiet suburban street. A crow chatters on top of a lamp-post, fainter song from other birds. Two cars drive past in quick succession. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 16 February 2009. Time of day: 10.30am.

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