Select a place by clicking on either a yellow spot below or its name from the list further down.
Brick Lane and Sclater Street Brixton Station Road and Electric Avenue Broadway, Bexleyheath Bromley High Street Cathedral Walk, Victoria Chapel Market, Islington Church Street Market Clarence Street, Kingston Columbia Road flower market Covent Garden Deptford Market East Street, Barking East Street, Walworth Gerrard Street, Chinatown Greens End and Powis Street, Woolwich Hounslow High Street Ilford High Road Kings Cross Kingston Market and Memorial Square Leicester Square Lewisham Market Neal Street North End and Surrey Street, Croydon Palace Gardens, Enfield Petticoat Lane Portobello Road Queen's Market, Upton Park Ridley Road, Dalston Roman Road Market Romford Market and South Street Shepherds Bush Market Stratford station and Westfield approach Sutton High Street The Broadway, Stratford Uxbridge High Street Walthamstow Market Wembley Central Wembley Park Westfield Shepherds Bush Whitechapel Market Whitecross Street
Return to Street life introduction page.
Wembley Park 7:30
Time, date and weather: 2.20 pm, Saturday 23rd September 2017. Mostly overcast, 18°C, wind 10 mph.
Description: Starting on the pedestrianised thoroughfare near the junction with Wembley Hill Road. Traffic on Wembley Hill Road, growing fainter; footsteps and voices of passersby; rattling of a wheeled suitcase; a train passes Wembley Stadium station; occasional traffic on South Way; sounds start to take on a slightly more reverberant tone a short way into Wembley Park Boulevard; children's voices; a football is bounced and kicked; loud noise of air conditioning units; recorded steam whistle sound from an electric vehicle resembling a miniature steam engine, its open carriages seating a few very young children; loud hum from a generator; noise of construction vehicles working near the junction with Engineer's Way; a voice on a construction worker's walkie-talkie.