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WATERWAYS SOUND MAP: RIVERS QUAGGY AND POOL

Chaffinch Brook Elmers End. Location: Clock House Road, Elmers End. Description: Airplane drone, sound of the Chaffinch Brook flowing beneath a small bridge, voices of men loading a van, a car passes by. Date: 14 September 2011. Duration: 1:00.

Chaffinch Brook Clock House. Location: Hampden Road, Clock House. Description: The Chaffinch Brook flows from under a residential street, a siren sounds in the distance, knocking sounds from a man repairing a roof nearby. Date: 14 September 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Pool Lower Sydenham. Location: Footpath off Worsley Bridge Road, Lower Sydenham. Description: Trickle of the Pool as it passes over gravel, shouts of boys playing football in a sports ground opposite, airplane drone, faint birdsong. Date: 14 September 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Pool Bell Green. Location: Near Moremead Road, Bell Green, southeast London. Description: Close-up recording of the Pool as it flows swiftly through a narrow bend, birdsong, distant traffic. Date: 14 September 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Pool Grangemill Road. Location: By the River Pool near Grangemill Road, Bellingham. Description: Distant voices of children at play, a dog barks, knocking sounds from a house close by, the wind stirs foliage. Date: 14 September 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Quaggy Chinbrook Meadows. Location: Chinbrook Meadows, Grove Park. Description: The Quaggy rushes as a thin sheet of water over its concrete bed, faint birdsong close by, distant traffic. Date: 5 November 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Quaggy Mottingham Lane. Location: Mottingham Lane near junction with Sidcup Road, Mottingham. Description: Traffic, reverberant sound of the Quaggy as it flows into a culvert beneath Mottingham Lane, distant traffic and indistinct voices, a car drives past. Date: 5 November 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Quaggy Cray Valley FC. Location: Eltham Palace Road, overlooking the Cray Valley FC ground. Description: Shouts of football players at the Cray Valley FC ground, referee's whistle, sound of the ball being kicked, constant traffic in distance. Date: 5 November 2011. Duration: 1:00.

River Quaggy Sutcliffe Park. Location: Sutcliffe Park, Eltham. Description: Loud whistling and chirping of starlings in a stand of trees, constant traffic on the A20. Date: 5 November 2011. Duration: 1:00.

Quaggy River March2011. Location: Manor Park, Lewisham Description: Trickling and rushing sounds of the river Quaggy, birdsong, distant traffic, an airplane flies overhead, a child's voice at the end. Date: March 2011. Duration: 1:56.

That concludes the list of recordings for the rivers Quaggy and Pool.

OTHER WATERWAYS SOUND MAP RIVERS AND CANALS

Rivers Beam and Rom. Beverley Brook. River Brent. Grand Union Canal. River Hogsmill. River Lea. New River. Pymme's Brook. River Ravensbourne. Regent's Canal. River Roding. Silk Stream and Dollis Brook. River Wandle.

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