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: Shopping precinct: chatter, footsteps etc, wide perspective, Stevenage, April 1970.
BBC DESCRIPTION: St. Albans Abbey bells, Erin Cinques, start into ringing.
BBC DESCRIPTION: St. Albans Abbey bells, ringing down, bells stop.
BBC DESCRIPTION: St.Albans Cathedral, bell strikes 8.