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Sound recordings featuring Hampstead Heath, Highgate and Archway

Abingdon Road W8 April. Location: Junction of Abingdon Road and Abingdon Villas, west London. Description: Voices and clattering sounds from a nearby restaurant, occasional passing traffic, slamming of car doors, a taxi drives off. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 21 April 2013. Time of day: 3.15pm.

Mutton Brook Lyttleton Playing Fields. Location: On a footbridge by the Lyttleton Playing Fields, East Finchley. Description: The Mutton Brook passes noisily over a rubble-filled stream bed, traffic on Lyttleton Road, a car horn beeps. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 3 February 2012. Time of day: 3.15pm.

Mutton Brook Norrice Lea. Location: Norrice Lea near junction with Lyttleton Road, East Finchley. Description: Loud traffic from Lyttleton Road, faint birdsong and trickling of the Mutton Brook, occasional sounds of a gardener at work outside a nearby house. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 3 February 2012. Time of day: 2.45pm.

Highgate Cemetery. Location: Middle of Highgate Cemetery, north London. Description: This was recorded April 2010, during the volcano-induced no-fly-zone over Britain. There is traffic noise, but the usual frequent aeroplane noise is missing. Duration: 3:00. Recorded by: Chris/dashanna. Recording date: April 2010. Time of day: Daytime.

TQ 2835 8826. Location: OS reference TQ 2835 8826. Archway Road, opposite Highgate Wood. Description: Heavy traffic close by. During a lull between vehicles an old man can be heard shuffling past. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 16 February 2009. Time of day: 1.40pm.

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