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: Hyde tram, constant run on gradients and stop.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Hyde tram, departs.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Exterior, single bell telling [sic], with distant traffic and birdsong. St. Chad's Parish Church, Rochdale, 1974
BBC DESCRIPTION: Peal of 8 bells from inside parch [sic]. St. Chad's Parish Church, Rochdale, 1974