WATERWAYS SOUND MAP: RIVER LEA
River Lea Enfield Lock. Location: Enfield Lock, north London. Description: Loud rushing of water pouring through a gap in the lock gates, thumping noises as two cars in succession drive over a metal plate in the road, cooing of pigeons. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.
River Lea Brimsdown. Location: Facing the Ponders End industrial estate, Brimsdown, north London. Description: A constant hum from a factory, birdsong, occasional calls of coots, distant banging noises. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.
River Lea Picketts Lock North. Location: Immediately north of Picketts Lock, Lower Edmonton, north London. Description: Loud, constant rushing of water flowing from the Lea into a box-like concrete structure before disappearing underground. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.
River Lea Picketts Lock South. Location: Immediately south of Picketts Lock, Lower Edmonton, north London. Description: Water bubbles out of a buried pipe into the Lea close by, faint electronic beeping sounds from an industrial estate. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.
River Lea Lee Valley Park. Location: By Lee Valley Park, facing the refuse plant off Ash Wharf, north London. Description: Cawing of crows in nearby trees, loud metallic banging sounds from a refuse plant, other industrial noises. Date: 6 January 2012. Duration: 1:00.
Stonebridge Lock. Location: Stonebridge Lock on the River Lea, at Tottenham Marshes, north-east London. Description: Loud, discordant squealing as a barge-owner operates the winding gear on Stonebridge Lock. Voices of onlookers, distant traffic. Date: 18 July 2010. Duration: 1:00.
Summer wind Tottenham Marshes. Location: Tottenham Marshes, north-east London. Description: Grasshoppers rasp in tall grass around, sound of a blustery late afternoon wind, distant traffic. Date: 21 July 2010. Duration: 1:36.
Hackney Marshes. Location: Lea Bridge end of Hackney Marshes. Description: Football players recorded around Sunday lunchtime at Hackney Marshes. Players' cries, metallic banging from a building site, aircraft drone, fizzing of insects in a patch of tall grass nearby. Date: September 2008. Duration: 1:00.
River Lea waste depot. Location: River Lea, a few hundred yards south of Lea Bridge Road. Description: Birdsong, humming and occasional clanging sounds from a waste depot on the other side of the river Lea. Date: 10 April 2010. Duration: 1:15.
Channelsea River Greenway. Location: The Channelsea river under the Greenway bridge, near West Ham. Description: Traffic noise, cooing of pigeons beneath the bridge, constant dripping of water. Date: 6 June 2011. Duration: 1:00.
River Lea Bow Locks. Location: Bow Locks, Bromley-by-Bow, east London. Description: Churning and bubbling of water in one of the Bow Locks, constant traffic, faint bird calls. Date: 29 December 2011. Duration: 1:00.
River Lea Limmo Peninsula. Location: Limmo Peninsula Park, Canning Town, east London. Description: Loud, constant traffic on East India Dock Road, a regular hammering noise from a large building site. Date: 30 November 2011. Duration: 1:00.
Trinity Buoy Wharf. Location: Trinity Buoy Wharf at Leamouth, near East India Dock. Description: Traffic passes over the Lower Lea Crossing, a metallic clinking sound as moored boats shift around at the mouth of the Lea. Date: 8 October 2011. Duration: 0:57.
That concludes the list of recordings for the river Lea.