In 2018, the BBC made freely available for non-commercial use around 16,000 of its sound effects recordings. A few hundred come from known locations around the UK, and most of those have been presented here in a sound map. All recordings © BBC.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Atmosphere in china shop, outside Bullring Market.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Atmosphere of general wares being sold, Bullring.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Atmosphere of fish, meat and poultry stalls, Bullring.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Outdoor rag market (with "action" at end for use if showing a film crew).
BBC DESCRIPTION: Outdoor market, general atmosphere with preacher.
BBC DESCRIPTION: General atmosphere in indoor shopping centre, Birmingham.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Birmingham Stock Exchange, atmosphere on floor during trading.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Birmingham New Street railway station, station announcements at 0930 hours.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Children playing in a school playground in the Midlands (Birmingham), 1971.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Church bells ringing. St. Nicholas' Church, Kings Norton.
BBC DESCRIPTION: St. Philip's Cathedral bells, Cambridge Maximum [sic] rung. St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham.