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DAYTIME SOUNDMAP RECORDINGS

Sound recordings featuring Fulham, West Brompton and Putney

West Cromwell Road W14 July. Location: West Cromwell Road outside Tesco, Kensington. Description: Loud constant traffic on Cromwell Road, indistinct voices nearby, faint clatter of supermarket trolleys, footsteps of passersby. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 2 July 2015. Time of day: 2.40pm.

Inside Earls Court station. Location: On one of the District Line platforms inside Earls Court station, west London. Description: Arrival and departure of District Line tube trains, a passing emergency services siren, footsteps, indistinct platform announcements. Duration: 2:54. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 11 February 2015. Time of day: 12.15pm.

Beckford Close W14 February. Location: By Warren House, Beckford Close, west London. Description: Constant traffic on Warwick Road, a family walk down Beckford Close and into Warren House flats, voices, a District Line tube train passes on the line to the west. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 11 February 2015. Time of day: 1.45pm.

Earls Court Exhibition Centre takedown. Location: Inside the main hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, west London. Description: Dozens of workers dismantle the lighting rigs and tiered seating after a fashion show. Clang of scaffolding poles, faint voices, hammering, a workman begins to wrap up a pile of timber close to the recording point. Duration: 5:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 3 December 2014. Time of day: 12.30pm.

Earls Court Exhibition Centre setup. Location: Inside the main hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, west London. Description: Carpenters and other workers assemble booths and displays for a trade show. Sounds of voices, hammering, drilling and sawing. Duration: 3:51. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 16 September 2014. Time of day: 11am.

Earls Court Exhibition Centre hall 1B. Location: Inside the main hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, west London. Description: Exhibition Centre staff begin preparing for a concert to be held later in the week. Sounds of voices, a broom sweeps up debris, a man whistles, desultory activity. Occasional rumble of tube trains passing beneath the building. Duration: 7:22. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 15 August 2014. Time of day: 10.30am.

Thames shore Putney. Location: On the Thames shore at Putney, near Barn Elms, southwest London. Description: Wash from passing boats curls onto the shore then subsides, a boat crew row past while their coach shouts encouragement from an accompanying motor boat, faint voices of walkers on the towpath above and behind. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 15 January 2012. Time of day: 4pm.

The Wandle Bell Lane Creek. Location: Bell Lane Creek, Wandsworth, southwest London. Description: Constant rush of water over the weir at Bell Lane Creek, a crane at work in the waste depot on the east side of the creek, a train heads towards Putney. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 15 January 2012. Time of day: 3.25pm.

Beverley Brook Barn Elms. Location: Beverley Brook by the Thames Path at Barn Elms, southwest London. Description: Water from a pipe splashes down into Beverley Brook, voices and footsteps as walkers cross an iron footbridge. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 15 January 2012. Time of day: 4.20pm.

Riverbus to Wandsworth Pier. Location: On the Thames approaching Wandsworth Pier from upstream. Description: Loud sound of the boat's engine which dies down, something rattles on board, the boat pulls alongside Wandsworth Pier and one of the watermen calls out to people waiting there. Duration: 2:23. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 17 March 2011. Time of day: 7.40am.

Putney Embankment at dawn. Location: Putney Embankment, south-west London Description: Traffic crossing Putney Bridge, voices of rowing crews preparing to set off, a beachcomber scrapes at gravel on the shore, aeroplane drone, a crow caws. Duration: 1:28. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 17 March 2011. Time of day: 6am.

Fulham Broadway tube. Location: At the entrance to Fulham Broadway Underground station. Description: Night-time revellers gather outside Fulham Broadway tube station, shouting, laughing and talking excitedly. Some have just come out of the station for a night out in Fulham, others are waiting to go elsewhere. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 23 January 2010. Time of day: Around midnight.

Atlas pub closing time. Location: Near the Atlas pub, Seagrave Road, West Brompton. Description: People spill out of the Atlas pub in West Brompton as it closes. Sounds of voices in the street, people hailing taxis, vehicles pass by, a lone blackbird sings in a tree. Duration: 1:30. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 23 January 2010. Time of day: 11.30pm.

By the Thames at Hammersmith. Location: Walking westwards along Lower Mall by the side of the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge. Description: Evening drinkers congregate outside the Blue Anchor pub on Lower Mall, overlooking the Thames. Voices, laughter, traffic passing over Hammersmith Bridge. Duration: 1:30. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 15 August 2009. Time of day: 8.30pm.

TQ 2439 7688. Location: OS grid reference TQ 2439 7688. Junction of Gowan Avenue and Munster Road. Description: A helicopter clatters overhead somewhere, vehicles pass along Munster Road, a man speaks loudly to his companions, sounds of passersby and of car doors being slammed. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 30 May 2009. Time of day: 4.00pm.

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