THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London
LONDON LICKPENNY
London Lickpenny was written around 1410 and it describes how a poor Kentish countryman visits London to settle a legal claim. He begins at Westminster with the Court of King’s Bench, before moving onto the Court of Common Pleas and then the Court of Chancery. But without money he’s unable to obtain justice. LONDON CAFES: MORE KINGS CROSS CAFES The hegemony of pricey hamburgers, once confined to south-west London, continues its expansion into Kings Cross with branches of Five Guys and Honest Burgers. Nearby, on Kings Cross Road, was Bar Uno run by a nice Italian lady named Maria. The premises had a long history of cafe use, operating in earlier years as the Beehive and, in the 1950s LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON LICKPENNY
London Lickpenny was written around 1410 and it describes how a poor Kentish countryman visits London to settle a legal claim. He begins at Westminster with the Court of King’s Bench, before moving onto the Court of Common Pleas and then the Court of Chancery. But without money he’s unable to obtain justice. LONDON CAFES: MORE KINGS CROSS CAFES The hegemony of pricey hamburgers, once confined to south-west London, continues its expansion into Kings Cross with branches of Five Guys and Honest Burgers. Nearby, on Kings Cross Road, was Bar Uno run by a nice Italian lady named Maria. The premises had a long history of cafe use, operating in earlier years as the Beehive and, in the 1950s LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: DONALD SOPER SPEAKERS Donald Soper Speakers Corner 1943. THE METHODIST, socialist and pacifist orator Donald Soper was a mainstay of Speakers Corner in Hyde Park from 1942 until 1993, when he was aged 90. Soper’s pacifism during the Second World War led to him being banned from BBC broadcasts until the war’s end, and so this recording of him from 1943 (BBC
SOUND AND THE LAW: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON RECORDING? Criminal law in the United Kingdom places few explicit limits on recordists. One example of a very definite stricture is Section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, which makes it illegal to: use in court, or bring into court for use, any tape recorder or other instrument for recording sound, except with the leave of the court. BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1951 Britain in 1951 was an austere place. The weekly meat ration was fixed at one shilling per person, including tuppence-worth of corned beef. Electricity restrictions had shut down the neon signs and display lights of the West End. A flu epidemic had broken out. The Festival was meant as a popular antidote to such woes, and its democratic outlook
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: LONDON STREET CRIES 1956 These recordings from 1956 appear on a 12” disc (BBC catalogue 892337) simply titled ‘London Street Cries’ and feature a coalman, two chimney sweeps and a butcher’s stall in a market. No precise locations are given for any of them. The coalman’s cry was recorded on the 15th of November, a Thursday. The coalman is named as Henry Halsey
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: PICCADILLY CIRCUS SOME OF the BBC recordings consist of just brief fragments of sound with no precise date and scant catalogue details. One of them is this recording (BBC library number 9226), described on its label as: Traffic and flower sellers, Piccadilly Circus, recorded before 1939. It’s of some significance, since the central part of the recording with the flower sellers’ voices was used in the BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: HOP-PICKING HOLIDAY 1934 Hop-picking holiday 1934. ‘OPPING ‘OLIDAY, SUBTITLED ‘An excursion in sound to the hop gardens of Kent’, is the source of the three recordings featured here. It was recorded during the harvest month of September in 1934 and the BBC catalogue number is 870077. Hop-picking holidays were products of the demand for seasonal workers, the
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: LAVENDER SELLER 1938 LONDON IS A mercantile city and the cries of street traders were long considered emblematic of its spirit. The earliest literary reference to London street cries is found in the satirical poem London Lickpenny written around 1410. They were later mentioned in the works of many authors, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Brown, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens and Thomas Burke. LONDON MAP FOR WILLESDEN, KILBURN, WEST HAMPSTEAD Willesden, Kilburn, West Hampstead. Layered map for Willesden, Kilburn, West Hampstead with field recordings and historical maps. Use the navigator map insert below to explore other areas. LONDON MAP CREDITS: OpenStreetMap image displayed under the terms of their Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence. THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. SOUND AND THE LAW: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON RECORDING? Criminal law in the United Kingdom places few explicit limits on recordists. One example of a very definite stricture is Section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, which makes it illegal to: use in court, or bring into court for use, any tape recorder or other instrument for recording sound, except with the leave of the court. BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: PICCADILLY CIRCUS One of them is this recording (BBC library number 9226), described on its label as: Traffic and flower sellers, Piccadilly Circus, recorded before 1939. It’s of some significance, since the central part of the recording with the flower sellers’ voices was used in the introduction to
THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK (1870): WHOLE ARTICLE First published in The Atlantic Monthly of February 1870, written by Charles Shanly.. THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK. T O RURAL persons visiting New York, who have wisely avoided the crowded hotels, and taken lodging in comparatively quiet by-streets, the various cries of the city must be a source of wonder, curiosity, doubt, fear, and sundry other emotions, according to circumstances and the THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. SOUND AND THE LAW: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON RECORDING? Criminal law in the United Kingdom places few explicit limits on recordists. One example of a very definite stricture is Section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, which makes it illegal to: use in court, or bring into court for use, any tape recorder or other instrument for recording sound, except with the leave of the court. BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: PICCADILLY CIRCUS One of them is this recording (BBC library number 9226), described on its label as: Traffic and flower sellers, Piccadilly Circus, recorded before 1939. It’s of some significance, since the central part of the recording with the flower sellers’ voices was used in the introduction to
THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK (1870): WHOLE ARTICLE First published in The Atlantic Monthly of February 1870, written by Charles Shanly.. THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK. T O RURAL persons visiting New York, who have wisely avoided the crowded hotels, and taken lodging in comparatively quiet by-streets, the various cries of the city must be a source of wonder, curiosity, doubt, fear, and sundry other emotions, according to circumstances and the OLD LONDON CRIES, 1847 Early street cries from London and Rome. THERE ARE two new additions to Street Cries of the World (there’s not much else to do right now), both distinguished by being among the earliest printed depictions in Europe.. One is an originally untitled broadsheet from London which belonged to Samuel Pepys, who may have been responsible for cutting it up into sections. SOUNDMAPS OF LONDON: AMBIENT RECORDINGS DURING DAYTIME Recordings of background atmospheres and incidental noises from all over London. Some form part of a sound grid series recorded at evenly-spaced points across the city, each marking the centre of a square on the map below. Above: graphic based on a daytime satellite image courtesy of the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space
THAMES ESTUARY SOUND MAP RECORDINGS Thames Estuary sound map. Some recordings made along the Kent and Essex sides of the Thames estuary. Here are the sounds of marshland, industry, the river itself, and the jewels of the Thames Riviera: Gravesend, Southend and Canvey Island. 'CITY AIR MAKES BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
LONDON LICKPENNY
London Lickpenny was written around 1410 and it describes how a poor Kentish countryman visits London to settle a legal claim. He begins at Westminster with the Court of King’s Bench, before moving onto the Court of Common Pleas and then the Court of Chancery. But without money he’s unable to obtain justice. LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of LONDON CAFES: MORE KINGS CROSS CAFES The hegemony of pricey hamburgers, once confined to south-west London, continues its expansion into Kings Cross with branches of Five Guys and Honest Burgers. Nearby, on Kings Cross Road, was Bar Uno run by a nice Italian lady named Maria. The premises had a long history of cafe use, operating in earlier years as the Beehive and, in the 1950s CASANOVA IN LONDON
Casanova in London. IN 1763 GIACOMO CASANOVA travelled to London and began renting rooms in Pall Mall to be near St James’s Palace. With this beachhead established, he could start screwing around in Covent Garden and Soho.
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: PICCADILLY CIRCUS SOME OF the BBC recordings consist of just brief fragments of sound with no precise date and scant catalogue details. One of them is this recording (BBC library number 9226), described on its label as: Traffic and flower sellers, Piccadilly Circus, recorded before 1939. It’s of some significance, since the central part of the recording with the flower sellers’ voices was used in the BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: HOP-PICKING HOLIDAY 1934 Hop-picking holiday 1934. ‘OPPING ‘OLIDAY, SUBTITLED ‘An excursion in sound to the hop gardens of Kent’, is the source of the three recordings featured here. It was recorded during the harvest month of September in 1934 and the BBC catalogue number is 870077. Hop-picking holidays were products of the demand for seasonal workers, the
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. SOUND AND THE LAW: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON RECORDING? Criminal law in the United Kingdom places few explicit limits on recordists. One example of a very definite stricture is Section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, which makes it illegal to: use in court, or bring into court for use, any tape recorder or other instrument for recording sound, except with the leave of the court. BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: PICCADILLY CIRCUS One of them is this recording (BBC library number 9226), described on its label as: Traffic and flower sellers, Piccadilly Circus, recorded before 1939. It’s of some significance, since the central part of the recording with the flower sellers’ voices was used in the introduction to
THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK (1870): WHOLE ARTICLE First published in The Atlantic Monthly of February 1870, written by Charles Shanly.. THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK. T O RURAL persons visiting New York, who have wisely avoided the crowded hotels, and taken lodging in comparatively quiet by-streets, the various cries of the city must be a source of wonder, curiosity, doubt, fear, and sundry other emotions, according to circumstances and the THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. SOUND AND THE LAW: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON RECORDING? Criminal law in the United Kingdom places few explicit limits on recordists. One example of a very definite stricture is Section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, which makes it illegal to: use in court, or bring into court for use, any tape recorder or other instrument for recording sound, except with the leave of the court. BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: PICCADILLY CIRCUS One of them is this recording (BBC library number 9226), described on its label as: Traffic and flower sellers, Piccadilly Circus, recorded before 1939. It’s of some significance, since the central part of the recording with the flower sellers’ voices was used in the introduction to
THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK (1870): WHOLE ARTICLE First published in The Atlantic Monthly of February 1870, written by Charles Shanly.. THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK. T O RURAL persons visiting New York, who have wisely avoided the crowded hotels, and taken lodging in comparatively quiet by-streets, the various cries of the city must be a source of wonder, curiosity, doubt, fear, and sundry other emotions, according to circumstances and the OLD LONDON CRIES, 1847 Early street cries from London and Rome. THERE ARE two new additions to Street Cries of the World (there’s not much else to do right now), both distinguished by being among the earliest printed depictions in Europe.. One is an originally untitled broadsheet from London which belonged to Samuel Pepys, who may have been responsible for cutting it up into sections. SOUNDMAPS OF LONDON: AMBIENT RECORDINGS DURING DAYTIME Recordings of background atmospheres and incidental noises from all over London. Some form part of a sound grid series recorded at evenly-spaced points across the city, each marking the centre of a square on the map below. Above: graphic based on a daytime satellite image courtesy of the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space
THAMES ESTUARY SOUND MAP RECORDINGS Thames Estuary sound map. Some recordings made along the Kent and Essex sides of the Thames estuary. Here are the sounds of marshland, industry, the river itself, and the jewels of the Thames Riviera: Gravesend, Southend and Canvey Island. 'CITY AIR MAKES BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
LONDON LICKPENNY
London Lickpenny was written around 1410 and it describes how a poor Kentish countryman visits London to settle a legal claim. He begins at Westminster with the Court of King’s Bench, before moving onto the Court of Common Pleas and then the Court of Chancery. But without money he’s unable to obtain justice. LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of LONDON CAFES: MORE KINGS CROSS CAFES The hegemony of pricey hamburgers, once confined to south-west London, continues its expansion into Kings Cross with branches of Five Guys and Honest Burgers. Nearby, on Kings Cross Road, was Bar Uno run by a nice Italian lady named Maria. The premises had a long history of cafe use, operating in earlier years as the Beehive and, in the 1950s CASANOVA IN LONDON
Casanova in London. IN 1763 GIACOMO CASANOVA travelled to London and began renting rooms in Pall Mall to be near St James’s Palace. With this beachhead established, he could start screwing around in Covent Garden and Soho.
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: PICCADILLY CIRCUS SOME OF the BBC recordings consist of just brief fragments of sound with no precise date and scant catalogue details. One of them is this recording (BBC library number 9226), described on its label as: Traffic and flower sellers, Piccadilly Circus, recorded before 1939. It’s of some significance, since the central part of the recording with the flower sellers’ voices was used in the BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: HOP-PICKING HOLIDAY 1934 Hop-picking holiday 1934. ‘OPPING ‘OLIDAY, SUBTITLED ‘An excursion in sound to the hop gardens of Kent’, is the source of the three recordings featured here. It was recorded during the harvest month of September in 1934 and the BBC catalogue number is 870077. Hop-picking holidays were products of the demand for seasonal workers, the
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON LICKPENNY
London Lickpenny was written around 1410 and it describes how a poor Kentish countryman visits London to settle a legal claim. He begins at Westminster with the Court of King’s Bench, before moving onto the Court of Common Pleas and then the Court of Chancery. But without money he’s unable to obtain justice. LONDON CAFES: MORE KINGS CROSS CAFES The hegemony of pricey hamburgers, once confined to south-west London, continues its expansion into Kings Cross with branches of Five Guys and Honest Burgers. Nearby, on Kings Cross Road, was Bar Uno run by a nice Italian lady named Maria. The premises had a long history of cafe use, operating in earlier years as the Beehive and, in the 1950s LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. LONDON CAFES: CENTRALE RESTAURANT, SOHO In Western culture, female figures often symbolise nation-states or ideals such as liberty and justice. London’s West End would be better represented by a statue of a man complete with welcoming grin and outstretched arms: the hugger mugger.Paul Day, responsible for the embarrassing sculpture in St Pancras station of a pair of lovestruck Martian office workers, should definitely get the BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: LONDON STREET CRIES 1956 These recordings from 1956 appear on a 12” disc (BBC catalogue 892337) simply titled ‘London Street Cries’ and feature a coalman, two chimney sweeps and a butcher’s stall in a market. No precise locations are given for any of them. The coalman’s cry was recorded on the 15th of November, a Thursday. The coalman is named as Henry Halsey
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: DONALD SOPER SPEAKERS Donald Soper Speakers Corner 1943. THE METHODIST, socialist and pacifist orator Donald Soper was a mainstay of Speakers Corner in Hyde Park from 1942 until 1993, when he was aged 90. Soper’s pacifism during the Second World War led to him being banned from BBC broadcasts until the war’s end, and so this recording of him from 1943 (BBC
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON LICKPENNY
London Lickpenny was written around 1410 and it describes how a poor Kentish countryman visits London to settle a legal claim. He begins at Westminster with the Court of King’s Bench, before moving onto the Court of Common Pleas and then the Court of Chancery. But without money he’s unable to obtain justice. LONDON CAFES: MORE KINGS CROSS CAFES The hegemony of pricey hamburgers, once confined to south-west London, continues its expansion into Kings Cross with branches of Five Guys and Honest Burgers. Nearby, on Kings Cross Road, was Bar Uno run by a nice Italian lady named Maria. The premises had a long history of cafe use, operating in earlier years as the Beehive and, in the 1950s LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. LONDON CAFES: CENTRALE RESTAURANT, SOHO In Western culture, female figures often symbolise nation-states or ideals such as liberty and justice. London’s West End would be better represented by a statue of a man complete with welcoming grin and outstretched arms: the hugger mugger.Paul Day, responsible for the embarrassing sculpture in St Pancras station of a pair of lovestruck Martian office workers, should definitely get the BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: LONDON STREET CRIES 1956 These recordings from 1956 appear on a 12” disc (BBC catalogue 892337) simply titled ‘London Street Cries’ and feature a coalman, two chimney sweeps and a butcher’s stall in a market. No precise locations are given for any of them. The coalman’s cry was recorded on the 15th of November, a Thursday. The coalman is named as Henry Halsey
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: DONALD SOPER SPEAKERS Donald Soper Speakers Corner 1943. THE METHODIST, socialist and pacifist orator Donald Soper was a mainstay of Speakers Corner in Hyde Park from 1942 until 1993, when he was aged 90. Soper’s pacifism during the Second World War led to him being banned from BBC broadcasts until the war’s end, and so this recording of him from 1943 (BBC
OLD LONDON CRIES, 1847 Early street cries from London and Rome. THERE ARE two new additions to Street Cries of the World (there’s not much else to do right now), both distinguished by being among the earliest printed depictions in Europe.. One is an originally untitled broadsheet from London which belonged to Samuel Pepys, who may have been responsible for cutting it up into sections. THAMES ESTUARY SOUND MAP RECORDINGS Thames Estuary sound map. Some recordings made along the Kent and Essex sides of the Thames estuary. Here are the sounds of marshland, industry, the river itself, and the jewels of the Thames Riviera: Gravesend, Southend and Canvey Island. 'CITY AIR MAKES BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: LONDON STREET CRIES 1956 These recordings from 1956 appear on a 12” disc (BBC catalogue 892337) simply titled ‘London Street Cries’ and feature a coalman, two chimney sweeps and a butcher’s stall in a market. No precise locations are given for any of them. The coalman’s cry was recorded on the 15th of November, a Thursday. The coalman is named as Henry Halsey
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1951 Britain in 1951 was an austere place. The weekly meat ration was fixed at one shilling per person, including tuppence-worth of corned beef. Electricity restrictions had shut down the neon signs and display lights of the West End. A flu epidemic had broken out. The Festival was meant as a popular antidote to such woes, and its democratic outlook
LONDON MAP FOR WILLESDEN, KILBURN, WEST HAMPSTEAD Willesden, Kilburn, West Hampstead. Layered map for Willesden, Kilburn, West Hampstead with field recordings and historical maps. Use the navigator map insert below to explore other areas. LONDON MAP CREDITS: OpenStreetMap image displayed under the terms of their Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence. BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: HOP-PICKING HOLIDAY 1934 Hop-picking holiday 1934. ‘OPPING ‘OLIDAY, SUBTITLED ‘An excursion in sound to the hop gardens of Kent’, is the source of the three recordings featured here. It was recorded during the harvest month of September in 1934 and the BBC catalogue number is 870077. Hop-picking holidays were products of the demand for seasonal workers, the
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: LAVENDER SELLER 1938 LONDON IS A mercantile city and the cries of street traders were long considered emblematic of its spirit. The earliest literary reference to London street cries is found in the satirical poem London Lickpenny written around 1410. They were later mentioned in the works of many authors, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Brown, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens and Thomas Burke. CHARLES DICKENS, DICKENS'S DICTIONARY OF THE THAMES , 1885 Charles Dickens, Dickens's dictionary of the Thames, 1885 REFERENCE DETAILS. The entry for Billingsgate Market from Charles Dickens, Dickens’s dictionary of the Thames, from its source to the Nore, 1885: an unconventional handbook.London, 1885. Source: Internet Archive and Victorian London. ORIGINAL TEXT. Billingsgate Market, in Thames-street, is about 300 yards east of London Bridge, and THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. LONDON CAFES: CENTRALE RESTAURANT, SOHO In Western culture, female figures often symbolise nation-states or ideals such as liberty and justice. London’s West End would be better represented by a statue of a man complete with welcoming grin and outstretched arms: the hugger mugger.Paul Day, responsible for the embarrassing sculpture in St Pancras station of a pair of lovestruck Martian office workers, should definitely get the LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: HOP-PICKING HOLIDAY 1934 Hop-picking holiday 1934. ‘OPPING ‘OLIDAY, SUBTITLED ‘An excursion in sound to the hop gardens of Kent’, is the source of the three recordings featured here. It was recorded during the harvest month of September in 1934 and the BBC catalogue number is 870077. Hop-picking holidays were products of the demand for seasonal workers, the
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: DONALD SOPER SPEAKERS Donald Soper Speakers Corner 1943. THE METHODIST, socialist and pacifist orator Donald Soper was a mainstay of Speakers Corner in Hyde Park from 1942 until 1993, when he was aged 90. Soper’s pacifism during the Second World War led to him being banned from BBC broadcasts until the war’s end, and so this recording of him from 1943 (BBC
THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK (1870): WHOLE ARTICLE First published in The Atlantic Monthly of February 1870, written by Charles Shanly.. THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK. T O RURAL persons visiting New York, who have wisely avoided the crowded hotels, and taken lodging in comparatively quiet by-streets, the various cries of the city must be a source of wonder, curiosity, doubt, fear, and sundry other emotions, according to circumstances and the THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY FEATURING LONDON MAPS, SOUND The London Sound Survey featuring sound maps, London maps, sound recordings, history of London sounds, wildlife, vintage radio actuality, blog and more SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS FEATURING LONDON UNDERGROUND AND Sound action recordings from London featuring London Underground and railway station announcements at Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Waterloo, plus Broadmoor and Canvey Island sirens, Big Ben and more HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. LONDON LICKPENNY (C. 1410): ENTIRE POEM Introduction. − British Isles pre-19th century. London Lickpenny c. 1410. The Cryes of London c. 1610. Pepys Collection: The Cries of London c. 1620. The Manner of Crying Things in London 1640. An Act of Common Councell 1643. The Old Pudding-pye Woman set forth in her colours, &c. c. 1675 Jovial Tom of all Trads, or, The Various Cries of London-City 1687. The Cryes of the City of London LONDON CAFES: ISLINGTON CAFES ISLINGTON CAFES. The Angel Inn on St John Street is one of the survivors (at least it was the last time I looked). The etched glass in the front door has since been replaced, and the interior now looks brighter and fresher than it did in 2001. The original Angel Inn was a hostelry dating back to the 17th century. LONDON CAFES: CENTRALE RESTAURANT, SOHO In Western culture, female figures often symbolise nation-states or ideals such as liberty and justice. London’s West End would be better represented by a statue of a man complete with welcoming grin and outstretched arms: the hugger mugger.Paul Day, responsible for the embarrassing sculpture in St Pancras station of a pair of lovestruck Martian office workers, should definitely get the LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: HOP-PICKING HOLIDAY 1934 Hop-picking holiday 1934. ‘OPPING ‘OLIDAY, SUBTITLED ‘An excursion in sound to the hop gardens of Kent’, is the source of the three recordings featured here. It was recorded during the harvest month of September in 1934 and the BBC catalogue number is 870077. Hop-picking holidays were products of the demand for seasonal workers, the
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: DONALD SOPER SPEAKERS Donald Soper Speakers Corner 1943. THE METHODIST, socialist and pacifist orator Donald Soper was a mainstay of Speakers Corner in Hyde Park from 1942 until 1993, when he was aged 90. Soper’s pacifism during the Second World War led to him being banned from BBC broadcasts until the war’s end, and so this recording of him from 1943 (BBC
THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK (1870): WHOLE ARTICLE First published in The Atlantic Monthly of February 1870, written by Charles Shanly.. THE STREET-CRIES OF NEW YORK. T O RURAL persons visiting New York, who have wisely avoided the crowded hotels, and taken lodging in comparatively quiet by-streets, the various cries of the city must be a source of wonder, curiosity, doubt, fear, and sundry other emotions, according to circumstances and the HISTORICAL LONDON MAPS Old London maps. Thumbnail links to the original scans making up the layers in the site's Layered London map.Clicking on the blue link above each thumbnail opens a new page equipped with a viewer allowing zooming, panning, and full-screen display. OLD LONDON CRIES, 1847 Early street cries from London and Rome. THERE ARE two new additions to Street Cries of the World (there’s not much else to do right now), both distinguished by being among the earliest printed depictions in Europe.. One is an originally untitled broadsheet from London which belonged to Samuel Pepys, who may have been responsible for cutting it up into sections. SOUNDMAPS OF LONDON: AMBIENT RECORDINGS DURING DAYTIME Recordings of background atmospheres and incidental noises from all over London. Some form part of a sound grid series recorded at evenly-spaced points across the city, each marking the centre of a square on the map below. Above: graphic based on a daytime satellite image courtesy of the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space
THAMES ESTUARY SOUND MAP RECORDINGS Thames Estuary sound map. Some recordings made along the Kent and Essex sides of the Thames estuary. Here are the sounds of marshland, industry, the river itself, and the jewels of the Thames Riviera: Gravesend, Southend and Canvey Island. BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 PRECISE DATES ARE lacking for some of the wartime BBC transcription discs, with only the month and the year printed on the label. So it is with the disc titled ‘Battle of Britain’ (BBC catalogue number 824871), for which the catalogue has defaulted to 1 August 1940, although the main Luftwaffe raids didn’t begin until the middle of the month.
BBC RADIO ACTUALITY RECORDINGS: LONDON STREET CRIES 1956 These recordings from 1956 appear on a 12” disc (BBC catalogue 892337) simply titled ‘London Street Cries’ and feature a coalman, two chimney sweeps and a butcher’s stall in a market. No precise locations are given for any of them. The coalman’s cry was recorded on the 15th of November, a Thursday. The coalman is named as Henry Halsey
LONDON CAFES: MORE KINGS CROSS CAFES The hegemony of pricey hamburgers, once confined to south-west London, continues its expansion into Kings Cross with branches of Five Guys and Honest Burgers. Nearby, on Kings Cross Road, was Bar Uno run by a nice Italian lady named Maria. The premises had a long history of cafe use, operating in earlier years as the Beehive and, in the 1950s SOUND AND THE LAW: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON RECORDING? Criminal law in the United Kingdom places few explicit limits on recordists. One example of a very definite stricture is Section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, which makes it illegal to: use in court, or bring into court for use, any tape recorder or other instrument for recording sound, except with the leave of the court. LONDON CAFES: NEW PICCADILLY, SOHO The New Piccadilly was a well-known cafe in a back street just to the north of Piccadilly Circus. Its exact address was 8 Denman Street, but due to some quirk in my mental map of the area I would sometimes make a wrong turn and have to retrace my steps. It was an exceptionally attractive cafe, from the coffee machine painted the same shade of REVIEW OF THE AUDIO TECHNICA BP4025 SINGLE-POINT STEREO The BP4025 is a single-point stereo mic which runs on 48V phantom power and, in Britain, should cost less than £450 new. Its main plus points are good build quality, quite a spacious-sounding stereo image, and low self-noise. The first thing you’ll notice about the mic is that it has a solid, sturdy feel. The BP4025 is just over 7 inches or THIS PAGE HAS A TEXT-ONLY VERSION FOR BLIND USERS
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A series of one-minute recordings gathered along the 150 miles of the London Loop footpath during the latter half of 2019, organised into a sound graphic. In an alternative presentation, all the sounds are merged into a single long recording for a different way of listening. STREET CRIES OF THE WORLD A collection of out-of-copyright material on street cries and street life which I'm scanning and transcribing. Many are from 19th-century London but others bring to life the sounds of Peking, Damascus, Bombay and elsewhere. More will be added each month throughout 2018. LONDON UNSEEN
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